Subverting Scripture

June 2019 Credo Many churches across the different traditions and denominations acknowledge the supreme authority of Scripture for faith and doctrine. A quick survey of the confessional statements of the mainline Protestant churches would reveal their high regard for...

1 Peter 3:18-22: Did Christ Descend into Hell?

May 2019 Credo A Difficult Passage 1 Peter 3:18-22, filled with textual, grammatical, lexical and theological difficulties is considered as one of the most difficult passages in the NT.  This is evidenced by the great reformer, Martin Luther’s comments: “This is a...

Augustine and Christian Education

May 2019 Credo One of the most important features of Christianity is its emphasis on teaching, or, to put it differently, its didactic character. Writing to his protégé Titus, Paul exhorts him to ‘teach what accords with sound doctrine’ (Titus 4:1). In similar vein,...

Science and Theology as Analogous Research Programmes

April 2019 Credo Richard Dawkins, the famous British atheist, famously asserts that since science works, it must be true and we must believe what it says. If Christianity clashes with science, so much the worse for Christianity. For this reason, some college students...

Pastoring with the Fathers

April 2019 Credo In the past three decades, a number of Christian writers have commented on the way in which the role of the minister has morphed in modern evangelical Christianity. In 1934, William Adams Brown and Mark A. May conducted a major study on clerical...