Introduction

Why a book on the creeds and confessions of the Church? I asked myself this question while browsing through a Christian book store looking for such a volume. It is unlikely that you will easily find such a book. At…

The Names and Attributes of God

Who is God? It is hard to imagine a more profound and important question. It is a question that leads to many more questions. What is God like? How does he exist? Can we know absolute truth? Or is truth…

The Authority of Scripture

The Book That Changed History It is subversive literature. It has led to the overthrow of governments, sparked mass migrations across oceans, and more than once changed the course of history. Governments — from the 16th-century English monarchy to the…

Why Creeds and Confessions?

Modern Dissent from the Creeds Driving down a country road sometime, you might see a fundamentalist church with a sign proudly proclaiming: “No book but the Bible — No creed but Christ.” The problem with this statement is that the…

The Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

What is the Trinity? Simply stated: “The Trinity is three persons (personae) in one substance (substantia).” “We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance.” — The Athanasian Creed In this…

Christology

Jesus Christ: Fully Man and Fully God At the end of the 19th century, a school of liberal theologians arose in Germany. They were called the higher critics. Their proclaimed goal was to isolate the “true historical Jesus” from the…

Protestants and Roman Catholics

The Reformation Paradigm All over the world today it is happening afresh. Evangelical Christians are rediscovering the literary works of the Protestant Reformation and are self-consciously studying Protestant theology as a model for a new Reformation. There is no doubt…