CBR Staff

April 15, 2022

Baptist Classics, Church History, Theology, Reading Challenge, Podcast

CBR Podcast Ep 18 - Benjamin Keach

CBR Staff

April 15, 2022

Baptist Classics, Church History, Theology, Reading Challenge, Podcast

In this episode, Matt Emerson is joined by special guest Jonathan Arnold to discuss Benjamin Keach and his work Gold Refined (1689). This episode is the fourth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.

CBR Staff

April 6, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Theological Resources for Easter

CBR Staff

April 6, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

CBR Staff: We have created several brief explainers over the years, so we created a brief one-stop shop here for some of these big questions:

Guest

January 24, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, Trinity, Article

Thomas Aquinas and Eternal Subordination

Guest

January 24, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, Trinity, Article

Thomas Aquinas and Eternal Subordination

NOAH SENTHIL: The Son is not eternally subject to the Father because the divine Person was not always united to a human nature.

Guest

January 10, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, World Religions, Article

Is Arius the Father of Islam?

Guest

January 10, 2022

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, World Religions, Article

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.

CBR Staff

December 30, 2021

Baptist Catholicity, Church History, Theology, Reading Challenge, Theology Classics

2022 Baptist Classics Reading Challenge

CBR Staff

December 30, 2021

Baptist Catholicity, Church History, Theology, Reading Challenge, Theology Classics

Have you ever wanted to read the classics of the Baptist tradition but didn’t know where to begin? This list takes you through a baker’s dozen of some of the most important Baptist works ever written.

Guest

December 27, 2021

Church History, Theology

On Evangelicalism and History

Guest

December 27, 2021

Church History, Theology

MICHAEL A. G. HAYKIN: Evangelicalism may have crystallized in the Anglophone world of the North Atlantic in the 1730s, but it is now a global phenomenon.

Brandon D. Smith

December 22, 2021

Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Church History, Theology

Evangelicals, Allegory, and Premodern Exegesis

Brandon D. Smith

December 22, 2021

Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Church History, Theology

Evangelicals, Allegory, and Premodern Exegesis

BRANDON D. SMITH: If we are willing to read and understand premodern exegesis, we may be able to retrieve premodern exegesis for the benefit of evangelical churches today.

Cody Glen Barnhart

November 29, 2021

Church History, Church Fathers, Trinity, Theology, Article

How the Pre-Nicenes Talked about the Trinity

Cody Glen Barnhart

November 29, 2021

Church History, Church Fathers, Trinity, Theology, Article

How the Pre-Nicenes Talked about the Trinity

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.

Guest

November 15, 2021

Biblical Interpretation, Church Fathers, Church History, Theology

Three (or So) Approaches to the Development of Doctrine

Guest

November 15, 2021

Biblical Interpretation, Church Fathers, Church History, Theology

Three (or So) Approaches to the Development of Doctrine

ANDY MESSMER: The Christian faith has been “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jd 3), but not all agree on what we are supposed to do with it.

Brandon D. Smith

September 21, 2021

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Eternal Generation according to Athanasius

Brandon D. Smith

September 21, 2021

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Eternal Generation according to Athanasius

BRANDON D. SMITH: Eternal generation was a deeply scriptural concept for the pro-Nicene theologians.

Guest

September 2, 2021

Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Congregational Worship, Theology

Retrieving Sacramental Preaching

Guest

September 2, 2021

Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Congregational Worship, Theology

MICHAEL COOPER: According to Calvin, the Reformation was a movement of retrieval for the sake of renewal, achieved by the Word.

Guest

July 23, 2021

Church History, Theology, Trinity

Doing Christology with John Owen

Guest

July 23, 2021

Church History, Theology, Trinity

TY KIESER: What do John Owen’s strange statements about the Son mean about Owen, his theology, and our own view of God?

CBR Staff

January 18, 2021

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Reading Challenge, Theology Classics

CBR Podcast Ep 02 - Theology Classics: Irenaeus of Lyon

CBR Staff

January 18, 2021

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Reading Challenge, Theology Classics

CBR Podcast Ep 02 - Theology Classics: Irenaeus of Lyon

In this episode, Matthew Emerson and Brandon Smith summarize and discuss the main points of Irenaeus's On the Apostolic Preaching. You can view The Center for Baptist Renewal Theology Classics Reading Challenge here: https://buff.ly/3mLmdA5.

CBR Staff

December 22, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers

2021 Theology Classics Reading Challenge

CBR Staff

December 22, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers

2021 Theology Classics Reading Challenge

Have you ever wanted to read the classics of Christian theology but didn’t know where to begin? This list takes you through twelve of the most important theological works ever written.

Brandon D. Smith

December 14, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Did Jesus Need the Holy Spirit?

Brandon D. Smith

December 14, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

BRANDON D. SMITH: Kenotic Christology is ultimately a novel view that undercuts classical Christian theism.

Cody Glen Barnhart

December 7, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Exegetical Lessons from Gregory Nazianzus

Cody Glen Barnhart

December 7, 2020

Church History, Church Fathers, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

Exegetical Lessons from Gregory Nazianzus

CODY GLEN BARNHART: The Scriptures ought to be read partitively—in two parts.

Winston Hottman

September 11, 2020

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, Contemplation

Patristics in the Pandemic

Winston Hottman

September 11, 2020

Church Fathers, Church History, Theology, Contemplation

WINSTON HOTTMAN: The Fathers regarded prosperity as a far greater threat to the church than destitution.

Guest

August 27, 2020

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

The Nicene Creed's Hermeneutic

Guest

August 27, 2020

Church Fathers, Church History, Biblical Interpretation, Theology, Trinity

GRIFFIN GULLEDGE: Nicaea was not ultimately a set of doctrines to check the box on before rejecting its foundations, implications, and related doctrines.