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.
R. LUCAS STAMPS: Despite its diversity, the consistent accent in Baptist political theology has been placed upon religious liberty.
WINSTON HOTTMAN: Pastoral Care is Gregory’s most important contribution to pastoral theology and comes down to us as a definitive classic.
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.
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We encourage the ongoing affirmation, confession, and catechetical use of the three ecumenical creeds and the scriptural insights of the seven ecumenical councils. We believe these confessional documents express well what Thomas Oden called the “consensual tradition”—the deposit of faith taught in Holy Scripture and received by the church throughout space and time.
MATTHEW Y. EMERSON AND R. LUCAS STAMPS: We encourage a critical but charitable engagement with the whole church of the Lord Jesus Christ, both past and present. We believe that Baptists have much to contribute as well as much to receive in the great collection of traditions that constitute the holy catholic church. We believe that we are “traditioned” creatures and that we should move beyond the false polarities of an individualistic modernity and a relativistic postmodernity.
