In this series, Brendon and Skye are going through the book Crisis of Confidence by Carl Trueman – exploring the reasons why Christians have normally used creeds to guard the faith, and why Mormons have been anti-creedal since their founding. This week we cover chapter six: “On the Usefulness of Creeds and Confessions”. 

Christianity and Liberalism; The Person of Jesus by J. Gresham Machen 

Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity; The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman 

Christless Christianity; “Charles Finney v. The Westminster Confession” by Michael Horton (also here and here) 

The Need for Creeds Today by J.V. Fesko 

"The Princeton Seminary Curriculum" by B.B. Warfield

Don’t Fire Your Church Members by Jonathan Leeman 

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 by Gregory Wills 

The Church of Christ by James Bannerman 

OPC Book of Church Order 

“Pragmatism” by Daniel Larison 

Jacques Derrida by Christopher Watkin