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Center for Baptist Renewal
CBR is a group of orthodox, evangelical Baptists committed to a retrieval of the Great Tradition for the renewal of Baptist faith and practice.
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This year and next, we are going to read The Complete Body of Doctrinal and Practical Divinity by the eighteenth-century Baptist divine, John Gill.
CBR STAFF: The Trinity in the Canon demonstrates that trinitarian theology derives directly from Scripture and should produce both right doctrine and right living.
R. LUCAS STAMPS: Despite its diversity, the consistent accent in Baptist political theology has been placed upon religious liberty.
BRANDON D. SMITH: After a fight like the Trinity debate, there becomes a danger of creating a Cage Stage Trinitarianism movement.
NEWS: This renaming of CBR and partnership with OBU also represents a shift in our ministry.
CODY GLEN BARNHART: Early Christianity functioned in a similar way to a lot of the philosophies surrounding it.
WINSTON HOTTMAN: Pastoral Care is Gregory’s most important contribution to pastoral theology and comes down to us as a definitive classic.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Catholicity as contribution—how a particular denomination or tradition adds its voice of the church catholic’s choir.
In 2023, we turn our attention to the topic of Christian spirituality for the CBR Reading Challenge.
CBR STAFF: About a month ago, we gathered for our first ever Center for Baptist Renewal event at Oklahoma Baptist University. Here are a few reflections.
WILLIAM JACKSON: Antiochenes did not believe God would inject meaning beyond the capabilities of a faithful, illumined, and curious interpreter.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Five reasons to affirm Jesus’s impeccability: that he was unable and never even desired to sin.
BRANDON D. SMITH: A positive articulation of “fromness” with respect to Trinitarian theology.
Complete this short survey for a chance to win a copy of Jamieson and Wittman’s Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Thomas Aquinas helps us answer the question, is it fitting for God to become a creature?
NOAH SENTHIL: The Son is not eternally subject to the Father because the divine Person was not always united to a human nature.
MATTHEW AARON BENNETT: For contemporary missionaries seeking to address the innovative heresy of the Islamic Jesus, retrieving the tried and true answers of our orthodox forebears is necessary.
CODY GLEN BARNHART: Some sixty years before the Council of Nicaea, a significant group of bishops condemned the use of “ousia language” to describe God.
Latest Podcast Episodes
In this episode, CBR Directors Brandon Smith and Winston Hottman discuss Athanasius’s The Life of Antony. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.
In this episode, Luke Stamps is joined by special guest Timothy George to discuss the contribution and legacy of Celtic Spirituality. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.
In this episode, Winston Hottman and Luke Stamps are joined by special guest Nathan Finn to discuss Andrew Fuller and his work Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785). This episode is the eighth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.