Credo Podcast

By Matthew Barrett

What's Credo Podcast about?

Welcome to the Credo Podcast where doctrine matters. Eavesdrop on conversations between Matthew Barrett and top theologians about the most pressing and important theological issues today.

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Credo Podcast episodes:

04.23.2024
Whatever happened to Contemplation? Zena Hitz and Matthew Barrett
What is the meaning of intellectual life? In modern education, educators and students alike are often disillusioned by the attitude prevalent in educational institutions that emphasizes usefulness and practicality rather than contemplating the meaning and purpose of life. Zena Hitz...
04.04.2024
Why is Friendship So Important for Dogmatics? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett
Isn’t being dogmatic a bad thing? On the contrary, dogmatics is the lifeblood of the church. In this episode, Matthew Barrett is joined by Reformed theologian Michael Allen as they unravel the task of sacred theology. Together, they explore the...
04.04.2024
Why is Friendship so Important for Dogmatics? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett
Isn’t being dogmatic a bad thing? On the contrary, dogmatics is the lifeblood of the church. In this episode, Matthew Barrett is joined by Reformed theologian Michael Allen as they unravel the task of sacred theology. Together, they explore the...
03.18.2024
Credo Alliance: Why We Retrieve Thomas Aquinas
You’ve most likely been told that Thomas Aquinas is off limits, a theologian who will corrupt Protestants and turn them into Roman Catholics. And yet, Protestant history tells a different story: many of our Protestant forefathers did not merely retrieve...
03.05.2024
Credo Alliance: We Believe in the Holy Spirit
In this episode of the Credo Alliance, Credo Fellows John Fesko, Fred Sanders, and Scott Swain join Matthew Barrett to discuss the Holy Spirit and the eternal spiration of the Holy Spirit. They explore the historical and theological background of...
02.13.2024
Classical Theology Panel Discussion – Trueman, DeYoung, Dolezal, Barrett
Why is Classical theology so important for the life and soul of the local church? This special episode of the Credo Podcast is from the 2023 Center for Classical Theology Panel Discussion moderated by Timothy Gatewood and featuring Carl Trueman,...
02.02.2024
Putting Backgrounds Back In The Background (Part 2)
If you rely on backgrounds for Biblical interpretation, what do you do if you do not know the author or date? How much of Paul’s biography should we use to interpret Paul’s writing? Dr. Ched Spellman says, “The Bible is...
01.31.2024
Carl Trueman: Classical Theology and the Modern Mind
Step into the world of classical theology with Carl Trueman. At the inaugural event for The Center for Classical Theology (CCT), Trueman delivered a captivating lecture called “Classical Theology and the Modern Mind,” demonstrating why a return to the orthodoxy...
12.26.2023
Does the Incarnation Change God? Dominic Legge and Matthew Barrett
Merry Christmas from Credo Magazine! To celebrate the birth of the Savior this week, we thought it apt to share a new conversation on the incarnation between Dominic Legge and Matthew Barrett. Oftentimes, theologians will approach the doctrine of Christology...
11.21.2023
How do we live in the City of God? Lessons from Augustine: Phillip Cary and Matthew Barrett
In an ongoing exploration of the theological giants who have shaped the Christian tradition, the Credo Podcast delves into the profound legacy of one of the most pivotal figures in the history of the church: Augustine. Matthew Barrett and Phillip...
10.31.2023
Introducing The Biblical Theology Podcast: Calvin’s Theological Agenda for Reading the Bible
This is the first episode in the brand new Biblical Theology podcast! We all use a theological key to interpret Scripture. The question is, is it a good one? John Calvin wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion, a summary of Christian...
10.23.2023
Union with Christ: Barrett and Ortlund Team Up
Credo Fellow Gavin Ortlund tees up with Matthew Barrett for a special crossover episode between the Credo podcast and Truth Unites. Their goal is to root Protestants in the wisdom of scripture and the riches of the Great Tradition. In...
10.11.2023
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Paul Tyson and Matthew Barrett
From Plato to Aristotle, Greek philosophy posits a transcendent view of reality often not appreciated by contemporary Christians living after modernism. But transcendence in Greek thought was not lost on the biblical authors. Narratives such as John 1 and Acts...
09.19.2023
What is the Doctrine of Participation? Andrew Davison and Matthew Barrett
“For from him and through him and to him are all things…” (Rom. 11:36) What does it mean to participate in God? In what ways do we share in Christ? Protestants today are oftentimes unfamiliar with or even suspicious towards...
08.10.2023
Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in the Beatific Vision
Theological convictions abound in matters of eschatology. But rather than focusing on secondary and often popular matters such as the rapture or the millennium, this episode of the Credo Alliance introduces listeners to the pinnacle of the Christian life: the...
07.25.2023
Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in Eternal Generation
“Begotten, not made; of the same essence as the Father.” With these words, the Nicene Creed sets the standard of Christian orthodoxy for pastors and church members. As Christians confess the creed today, they link arms with brothers and sisters...
07.05.2023
Why did Calvin think the Fathers were on his side? Matthew Barrett and Ronni Kurtz
In the final episode of this Credo mini-series, Ronni Kurtz asks Matthew Barrett about his investigation of John Calvin in his new book, The Reformation as Renewal. They discuss Calvin’s juxtaposition of dead icons and living icons and his doctrine...
06.06.2023
What was the Reformation debate over the Lord’s Supper really about? Matthew Barrett and Samuel Bierig
In episode 4 of this mini-series, Samuel Bierig asks Matthew Barrett, author of newly released book The Reformation as Renewal (Zondervan Academic), about the intense divisions over the Lord’s Supper during the Reformation and whether there is more than meets the...
05.24.2023
Will the real Luther please stand up? Matthew Barrett and Samuel Bierig
In episode 3 of this mini-series, Samuel Bierig asks Matthew Barrett, author of the new book The Reformation as Renewal, to introduce us to another side of Martin Luther, that side of Luther often forgotten. Though the oppositional narrative claims...
05.03.2023
Should we blame the Reformation for secularism? Matthew Barrett and Samuel G. Parkison
The Reformation has often been lamented, blamed for secularism, as if the Reformers cut the cord of participation in God by perpetuating the voluntarism and nominalism of their age. But in episode 2 of this mini-series, Sam Parkison asks Matthew...
04.19.2023
Why were the Reformers born out of Scholastic soil? Matthew Barrett and Samuel G. Parkison
The Reformation has often been lamented, blamed for everything from secularism to schism. Meanwhile, others celebrate the Reformation either as a modern liberation or a biblicist break from tradition. But in this new mini-series of interviews, Samuel Parkison asks Matthew...
04.04.2023
The Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in the Classical Method
In the second episode of The Credo Alliance, Credo Fellows Fred Sanders, J.V. Fesko, Scott Swain, and Matthew Barrett discuss the importance of theological method for classical theology. The method of modern theology will only take you so far with...
03.21.2023
The Credo Alliance: Why We Are Classical Theists
In this special episode, Credo launches a new series called The Credo Alliance, which brings together today’s best theologians to unite around classical Christianity, collaborating for the sake of renewal in the church today. In this first episode, Credo Fellows...
03.07.2023
Why did Platonism help Augustine read the Bible like a Christian? John Peter Kenney and Matthew Barrett
What did Augustine and Athanasius, Origen and the Cappadocians, Boethius and Aquinas all have in common? They all critically appropriated Platonism. Platonism was not a set of doctrines that proved convenient. Rather, Platonism was an epic, even revolutionary outlook on...
02.22.2023
Can we be Reformed and Scholastic?
Reformed and Scholastic are often considered antithetical to one another, as if the use of the scholastic method or the retrieval of its philosophy and theology is a betrayal of the Reformation. Such a popular narrative is more fiction than...
01.31.2023
How to be a Joyful Calvinist: James Montgomery Boice and the Life of the Mind – Philip Ryken and Matthew Barrett
Who was one of the great influences on today’s leading theologians and university presidents? James Montgomery Boice. Educated at Harvard University and Princeton Seminary, the late James Montgomery Boice was raised up for a lifetime of preaching at Tenth Presbyterian...
01.18.2023
Why did C.S. Lewis think natural law could make us human again? Michael Ward and Matthew Barrett
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but irrigate deserts.” With these words C.S. Lewis opened The Abolition of Man. Lewis spent his life standing against the modern approach to education, an approach that encouraged cynicism and skepticism,...
12.14.2022
Modern Trinity or Classical Trinity? Thomas Joseph White and Matthew Barrett
Many moderns constructed their doctrine of the Trinity according to Rahner’s rule, which says the immanent Trinity is the economic Trinity and the economic Trinity is the immanent Trinity. But should Christians even frame the Trinity in these terms? Are...
11.22.2022
What are the processions of the Trinity? Glenn Butner and Matthew Barrett
What are eternal processions? The language of “processions” may be foreign to some today, but the Great Tradition capitalized on this language to describe the Trinity and keep heresy at bay. From the church fathers to the medieval and Protestant...
10.31.2022
Why is Zwingli the forgotten Reformer? Bruce Gordon and Matthew Barrett
In celebrations of the Reformation Protestants have placed not little emphasis on prominent figures such as John Calvin or Martin Luther. Others such as Zwingli, along with the Swiss reformation, are often overlooked and considered inconsequential. Yet, Zwingli’s controversial legacy...
10.05.2022
How can the man of sorrows be impassible? Steven J. Duby and Matthew Barrett
The doctrine of God’s impassibility may seem counterintuitive to many Christians today, but actually, impassibility is an essential belief of Christian orthodoxy. Impassibility was not only affirmed in the great confessions of faith throughout church history, but also defended as...
09.21.2022
What did Thomas Jefferson think about Christianity? Matthew Barrett and Gary Steward with Thomas S. Kidd
Thomas Jefferson continues to elicit a wide-range of reactions. Jefferson had a brilliant mind and engaged with Christianity in ways that were both sympathetic and critical. Along with many others during his time, Jefferson was intrigued by several principles from...
09.06.2022
Why did R.C. Sproul think Classical Theism was his legacy? Matthew Barrett and Stephen J. Nichols
From his books to the chalkboard, R.C. Sproul communicated the deep things of God in an accessible way. When asked what the core of his legacy was all about he exclaimed, “Classical Theism!” But Sproul’s commitment to classical theism was...
08.23.2022
Podcast Throwback: What is Christian Platonism? Matthew Barrett and Hans Boersma
What should we think of Plato? Do his ideas have any profit for Christianity? Can the Platonic philosophical heritage serve Christianity as a handmaiden to biblical interpretation and theological construction? These questions concerning the relationship between philosophy and theology have...
08.16.2022
What is Partitive Exegesis? Matthew Barrett with Bobby Jamieson and Tyler Wittman
How can we hold our systematic theology in one hand and take seriously the exegetical task in the other? How do we interpret scripture in light of Christ’s two natures? Throughout the Great Tradition, biblical scholars and theologians alike have...
08.02.2022
Why the Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis Can Save Us From Modernity: Matthew Barrett and Jason Baxter
C.S. Lewis has become a household name in contemporary culture. While many appreciate Lewis for The Chronicles of Narnia or Mere Christianity, most don’t realize the reason these works are so magnetic. C.S. Lewis was a medieval man with a medieval...
07.26.2022
Podcast Throwback: Should theology inform exegesis? Matthew Barrett and Bobby Jamieson
We often approach the Scriptures as if we must keep all that theology out. We might even read the Old Testament as if we should not look ahead to the New Testament, lest we introduce theological doctrines which prejudice our...
07.12.2022
Can John Webster help us make theology theological again? Tyler Wittman and Matthew Barrett
John Webster is one of the most profound theologians in recent history. While some may not recognize the name, his works have set a trajectory for theology and dogmatics in evangelical scholarship. Webster not only had a great understanding of...
06.21.2022
Podcast Throwback: Inseparable Operations: Good News for Salvation? Adonis Vidu and Matthew Barrett
The external works of the Trinity are undivided. Until recently, this statement was an uncontroversial affirmation of the doctrine of inseparable operations. In fact, for nearly two millennia, inseparable operations were simply assumed to be an integral premise of the...
05.24.2022
Podcast Throwback: Thomas Aquinas: Friend or Foe? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett
Why are evangelicals so unfamiliar with one of the greatest theologians in the history of the church, Thomas Aquinas? Is Thomas a friend or a foe to evangelicals today? Was Thomas first and foremost a philosopher or a theologian? Was Thomas...
05.10.2022
How can liturgy create a healthy church? Jonathan Gibson and Matthew Barrett
Liturgy is to the church like oxygen is to the lungs. Unfortunately, churches today can be suspicious towards liturgy, as if it is devoid of the heart. But for most of history the church has turned to liturgy as a...
04.27.2022
Why is the Beatific Vision our Hope? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett
The apostle John once wrote to the church and made a bold promise: “Beloved we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him,...
04.13.2022
What can Christians learn from Stephen King? Jared Wilson and Matthew Barrett
Stephen King will go down as one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. Although his works are not often considered relevant to theological conversation or even unfriendly to the Christian faith by some, King offers Christians a window...
03.30.2022
What is the Extra Calvinisticum? KJ Drake and Matthew Barrett
But if his human nature is not present wherever his Godhead is, are not then these two natures in Christ separated from one another? Not at all, for since the Godhead is illimitable and omnipresent, it must necessarily follow that...
03.09.2022
Why is humility essential to theology? Kelly Kapic and Matthew Barrett
When Jesus washes his disciples’ feet he is not just giving them a picture of the type of salvation he has come to accomplish, but he is showing them the means by which he will accomplish that salvation as well....
02.15.2022
Is the Bible a Work of Ancient Philosophy? Matthew Barrett and Jonathan Pennington
Is philosophy in conflict with Christianity? At its heart, philosophy is a love for wisdom that uses the mind with its reason as well as the heart to understand big ideas of reality. Who is God, who am I, and...
02.01.2022
What is Christian Platonism? Matthew Barrett and Hans Boersma
What should we think of Plato? Do his ideas have any profit for Christianity? Can the Platonic philosophical heritage serve Christianity as a handmaiden to biblical interpretation and theological construction? These questions concerning the relationship between philosophy and theology have...
01.19.2022
Should theology inform exegesis? Matthew Barrett and Bobby Jamieson
We often approach the Scriptures as if we must keep all that theology out. We might even read the Old Testament as if we should not look ahead to the New Testament, lest we introduce theological doctrines which prejudice our...
01.05.2022
Why I became an Evangelical Theologian: Matthew Barrett and Daniel Treier
Many view evangelicalism only in the political sense of the term, which may overlook and even diminish the rich theological tradition that is evangelical theology. Whether you joyfully consider yourself an evangelical or prefer to ditch the term altogether, evangelicals continue to...
12.14.2021
Inseparable Operations: Good News for Salvation? Matthew Barrett and Adonis Vidu
The external works of the Trinity are undivided. Until recently, this statement was an uncontroversial affirmation of the doctrine of inseparable operations. In fact, for nearly two millennia, inseparable operations were simply assumed to be an integral premise of the...

What's Credo Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Credo Podcast episodes:

Whatever happened to Contemplation? Zena Hitz and Matthew Barrett

Why is Friendship So Important for Dogmatics? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett

Why is Friendship so Important for Dogmatics? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett

Credo Alliance: Why We Retrieve Thomas Aquinas

Credo Alliance: We Believe in the Holy Spirit

Classical Theology Panel Discussion – Trueman, DeYoung, Dolezal, Barrett

Putting Backgrounds Back In The Background (Part 2)

Carl Trueman: Classical Theology and the Modern Mind

Does the Incarnation Change God? Dominic Legge and Matthew Barrett

How do we live in the City of God? Lessons from Augustine: Phillip Cary and Matthew Barrett

Introducing The Biblical Theology Podcast: Calvin’s Theological Agenda for Reading the Bible

Union with Christ: Barrett and Ortlund Team Up

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Paul Tyson and Matthew Barrett

What is the Doctrine of Participation? Andrew Davison and Matthew Barrett

Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in the Beatific Vision

Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in Eternal Generation

Why did Calvin think the Fathers were on his side? Matthew Barrett and Ronni Kurtz

What was the Reformation debate over the Lord’s Supper really about? Matthew Barrett and Samuel Bierig

Will the real Luther please stand up? Matthew Barrett and Samuel Bierig

Should we blame the Reformation for secularism? Matthew Barrett and Samuel G. Parkison

Why were the Reformers born out of Scholastic soil? Matthew Barrett and Samuel G. Parkison

The Credo Alliance: Why We Believe in the Classical Method

The Credo Alliance: Why We Are Classical Theists

Why did Platonism help Augustine read the Bible like a Christian? John Peter Kenney and Matthew Barrett

Can we be Reformed and Scholastic?

How to be a Joyful Calvinist: James Montgomery Boice and the Life of the Mind – Philip Ryken and Matthew Barrett

Why did C.S. Lewis think natural law could make us human again? Michael Ward and Matthew Barrett

Modern Trinity or Classical Trinity? Thomas Joseph White and Matthew Barrett

What are the processions of the Trinity? Glenn Butner and Matthew Barrett

Why is Zwingli the forgotten Reformer? Bruce Gordon and Matthew Barrett

How can the man of sorrows be impassible? Steven J. Duby and Matthew Barrett

What did Thomas Jefferson think about Christianity? Matthew Barrett and Gary Steward with Thomas S. Kidd

Why did R.C. Sproul think Classical Theism was his legacy? Matthew Barrett and Stephen J. Nichols

Podcast Throwback: What is Christian Platonism? Matthew Barrett and Hans Boersma

What is Partitive Exegesis? Matthew Barrett with Bobby Jamieson and Tyler Wittman

Why the Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis Can Save Us From Modernity: Matthew Barrett and Jason Baxter

Podcast Throwback: Should theology inform exegesis? Matthew Barrett and Bobby Jamieson

Can John Webster help us make theology theological again? Tyler Wittman and Matthew Barrett

Podcast Throwback: Inseparable Operations: Good News for Salvation? Adonis Vidu and Matthew Barrett

Podcast Throwback: Thomas Aquinas: Friend or Foe? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett

How can liturgy create a healthy church? Jonathan Gibson and Matthew Barrett

Why is the Beatific Vision our Hope? Michael Allen and Matthew Barrett

What can Christians learn from Stephen King? Jared Wilson and Matthew Barrett

What is the Extra Calvinisticum? KJ Drake and Matthew Barrett

Why is humility essential to theology? Kelly Kapic and Matthew Barrett

Is the Bible a Work of Ancient Philosophy? Matthew Barrett and Jonathan Pennington

What is Christian Platonism? Matthew Barrett and Hans Boersma

Should theology inform exegesis? Matthew Barrett and Bobby Jamieson

Why I became an Evangelical Theologian: Matthew Barrett and Daniel Treier

Inseparable Operations: Good News for Salvation? Matthew Barrett and Adonis Vidu