Credo Podcast

What does it mean to live in a way that is holy? Too often, modern theologians elevate doctrine without elevating moral living, even though true theology cannot be elevated without also elevating virtue. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, OP, to explore Thomas Aquinas’s doctrinal understanding of the good… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Dominic Legge to explore Christ’s relationship to the Holy Spirit. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of Christ’s incarnation as anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, elevated by grace while remaining fully human. During the conversation, they consider the Greek patristic tradition, the relationship between grace and the…...

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Scott Clark, president of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about the Heidelberg Catechism and Clark’s new book, The Heidelberg Catechism: A Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Commentary. In this conversation, Clark explains the historic practice of catechesis, how the Heidelberg Catechism is an… Downlo...

Who does Jesus call? When Jesus calls Matthew, he finds him in the tax collector booth, considered by all a sinner and a traitor to his people. And yet Matthew is the very one Jesus shows mercy to and kindness upon kindness. In this Eucharist homily preached at Trinity Anglican Seminary, Matthew Barrett notes that… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College(opens in new tab), joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about Blaise Pascal and Tomlin’s new book Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World(opens in new tab). In this conversation, Tomlin argues that Pascal anticipated the modern worldview and… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College, joins Matthew Barrett for an in-depth discussion on the priesthood. Christ is our great High Priest, and the task of every individual priest is to remind the church over and over again of Jesus so that the church can be… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore the meaning of prudence. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of prudence as “right reason in things to be done” or the virtue that takes counsel, makes judgments, and ultimately commands. During the conversation, they consider moral theology, human limitations, and the freedom… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore how virtue and happiness go hand in hand. Virtue is not some kind of dreadful obligation or duty. Instead, virtue facilitates happiness because it forms the soul to love the good until choosing good becomes natural and even joyful. During the conversation, they… Download Audio

In this Credo Conference Q&A, Jordan C. Cooper, Michael Allen, and Todd Billings discuss the beatific vision, union with Christ, being seen by God, and the need for Christian asceticism… Download Audio

In this Credo Conference Q&A, Gavin Ortlund, Matthew Barrett, and Louis Markos discuss the beatific vision, the Christian use of pagan philosophy, the relationship between Scripture and nature, and how… Download Audio

Seeking wisdom is seeking the face of God. But what is the summit of wisdom, and how can we ascend to a knowledge of reality in our Enlightenment-shaped world? From… Download Audio

Our understanding of eschatology is a bellwether of the state of our souls. If we look forward to all the things Christ can give us and not to Christ himself,… Download Audio

If the beatific vision is the mind’s eye seeing the divine essence, then what does the beatific vision have to do with love? Could it be that the beatific vision… Download Audio

Sitting in a classroom and going to chapel in the middle of the week is not seminary but a Bible study, says president Bryan Hollon. If we are theologically forming… Download Audio

Suffering, so it would seem, appears contrary to our ascent to God, as if a barrier to the Beatific Vision. However, in scripture God ordains suffering as the path by… Download Audio

Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” In this Credo Conference message, Matthew Barrett builds up to Jesus’ words by first asking why God… Download Audio

The apostle Paul said that the beatific vision is the Christian’s blessed hope, and the Great Tradition believed the Christian’s greatest happiness will be experienced when we one day see… Download Audio

God has in his mind ideas of the things he makes. He is the grand architect. Did you know that some of these ideas in the mind of God can… Download Audio

The heresy of Apollinarianism has made a comeback today. But if Christ does not assume a human mind, how can he heal our human mind? New video between Dominic Legge,… Download Audio

Michael Bird and Matthew Barrett both used to be Baptists. Then their understanding of baptism changed. Why? In different ways they both realized that the scriptures, Old and New Testament… Download Audio

One of today’s leading theologians in matters of Christology is Dominic Legge, O.P. His book The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a penetrating look… Download Audio

Garrigou-Lagrange is one of the most important theologians of the last century. He had that rare gift of illuminating Thomism for a modern world. Or we could say, to steal… Download Audio

Is supernatural theology an art or a science? The way some do theology today you would think theology is an art, as if its principles originate from our own mind… Download Audio

When Matthew Barrett left the SBC to become Anglican, one of the major reasons why was the SBC’s rejection of the Nicene Creed’s inclusion in the Baptist Faith and Message,… Download Audio

When was the last time you heard of a member of a baptistic Christian commune becoming an Anglican priest? On this episode of Credo podcast, Dr. Gerald McDermott, author of… Download Audio