Credo Podcast

Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that every human being desires happiness, yet the ways we often seek happiness cannot fully satisfy the human heart. In this lecture delivered at the inaugural Aquinas KC conference at Donnelly College, Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, president of the Dominican House of Studies, uses the Summa Theologiae to explain how our… Download Audio

C.S. Lewis warned that modern life and education were making “men without chests” who lacked ordered desire and rightly formed love. In this lecture delivered at Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church, Dr. Bryan Hollon, president of Trinity Anglican Seminary, uses the Book of Common Prayer to explain how it is meant to order our affections, our… Download Audio

What does it mean to live in a way that is holy? Too often, modern theologians elevate doctrine without elevating moral living, even though true theology cannot be elevated without also elevating virtue. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, OP, to explore Thomas Aquinas’s doctrinal understanding of the good… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Dominic Legge to explore Christ’s relationship to the Holy Spirit. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of Christ’s incarnation as anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, elevated by grace while remaining fully human. During the conversation, they consider the Greek patristic tradition, the relationship between grace and the… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Scott Clark, president of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about the Heidelberg Catechism and Clark’s new book, The Heidelberg Catechism: A Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Commentary. In this conversation, Clark explains the historic practice of catechesis, how the Heidelberg Catechism is an… Download Audio

Who does Jesus call? When Jesus calls Matthew, he finds him in the tax collector booth, considered by all a sinner and a traitor to his people. And yet Matthew is the very one Jesus shows mercy to and kindness upon kindness. In this Eucharist homily preached at Trinity Anglican Seminary, Matthew Barrett notes that… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College(opens in new tab), joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about Blaise Pascal and Tomlin’s new book Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World(opens in new tab). In this conversation, Tomlin argues that Pascal anticipated the modern worldview and… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College, joins Matthew Barrett for an in-depth discussion on the priesthood. Christ is our great High Priest, and the task of every individual priest is to remind the church over and over again of Jesus so that the church can be… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore the meaning of prudence. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of prudence as “right reason in things to be done” or the virtue that takes counsel, makes judgments, and ultimately commands. During the conversation, they consider moral theology, human limitations, and the freedom… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore how virtue and happiness go hand in hand. Virtue is not some kind of dreadful obligation or duty. Instead, virtue facilitates happiness because it forms the soul to love the good until choosing good becomes natural and even joyful. During the conversation, they… Download Audio

In this Credo Conference Q&A, Jordan C. Cooper, Michael Allen, and Todd Billings discuss the beatific vision, union with Christ, being seen by God, and the need for Christian asceticism in the modern world. Together, they show that the Christian hope in the beatific vision is not an abstract doctrine we look forward to in… Download Audio

In this Credo Conference Q&A, Gavin Ortlund, Matthew Barrett, and Louis Markos discuss the beatific vision, the Christian use of pagan philosophy, the relationship between Scripture and nature, and how God could appoint the suffering of the cross as the path to true happiness. Together, they show that Christianity does not destroy human longing or… Download Audio

Seeking wisdom is seeking the face of God. But what is the summit of wisdom, and how can we ascend to a knowledge of reality in our Enlightenment-shaped world? From philosopher-kings to the Middle Ages, in his Credo conference message, Louis Markos takes us from Plato and Aristotle through Dante and C. S. Lewis to… Download Audio

Our understanding of eschatology is a bellwether of the state of our souls. If we look forward to all the things Christ can give us and not to Christ himself, we have a Christ big enough to deliver all the goods we long for but not so beautiful as to be the good for which… Download Audio

If the beatific vision is the mind’s eye seeing the divine essence, then what does the beatific vision have to do with love? Could it be that the beatific vision is nothing less than a participation in the love of God? In this Credo conference message, Jordan Cooper explores what participation in the love of… Download Audio

Sitting in a classroom and going to chapel in the middle of the week is not seminary but a Bible study, says president Bryan Hollon. If we are theologically forming future priests, then seminary must cultivate a “participation” in Christ. Seminary, in other words, must be sacramental. Matthew Barrett shares how his entire experience teaching… Download Audio

Suffering, so it would seem, appears contrary to our ascent to God, as if a barrier to the Beatific Vision. However, in scripture God ordains suffering as the path by which we will reach full maturity and one day see God. In his Credo conference message, J. Todd Billings shares his own story, his fight… Download Audio

Jesus says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” In this Credo Conference message, Matthew Barrett builds up to Jesus’ words by first asking why God must be simple for the beatific vision to be the source of our happiness in God. He also explains why our natural powers are insufficient… Download Audio

The apostle Paul said that the beatific vision is the Christian’s blessed hope, and the Great Tradition believed the Christian’s greatest happiness will be experienced when we one day see God. So why is it then that the beatific vision is rarely talked about in the life of the church today? The 2026 Credo Conference… Download Audio

God has in his mind ideas of the things he makes. He is the grand architect. Did you know that some of these ideas in the mind of God can also be exemplar causes of the very things he chooses to make? A Thomist with a bow tie, Gregory Doolan, sits down with Matthew Barrett… Download Audio

The heresy of Apollinarianism has made a comeback today. But if Christ does not assume a human mind, how can he heal our human mind? New video between Dominic Legge, O.P., president of Dominican House of Studies, and Matthew Barrett, Research Professor at Trinity Anglican Seminary, is now out! Not only do they discuss Christology… Download Audio

Michael Bird and Matthew Barrett both used to be Baptists. Then their understanding of baptism changed. Why? In different ways they both realized that the scriptures, Old and New Testament alike, describe covenant inclusion as a corporate rather than an individualistic event. From Noah’s ark to the crossing of the Red Sea to the household… Download Audio

One of today’s leading theologians in matters of Christology is Dominic Legge, O.P. His book The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a penetrating look at the contribution Aquinas makes to a biblical and creedal understanding the incarnation. He raises the question, did Jesus see God? Did he experience the… Download Audio

Garrigou-Lagrange is one of the most important theologians of the last century. He had that rare gift of illuminating Thomism for a modern world. Or we could say, to steal from the title of one of his own books, that Garrigou-Lagrange moved past all the confusion left behind by modernism and used common sense to… Download Audio

Is supernatural theology an art or a science? The way some do theology today you would think theology is an art, as if its principles originate from our own mind only to be projected outward in self-expression. Perhaps this is why theology has become subjective, like a wax nose, twisted this way or that depending… Download Audio

When Matthew Barrett left the SBC to become Anglican, one of the major reasons why was the SBC’s rejection of the Nicene Creed’s inclusion in the Baptist Faith and Message, resulting in a dangerous lack of creedal accountability. In this new episode of the Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett shares why Anglicanism becomes so life-giving with… Download Audio

When was the last time you heard of a member of a baptistic Christian commune becoming an Anglican priest? On this episode of Credo podcast, Dr. Gerald McDermott, author of Deep Anglicanism: A Brief Guide, an Anglican priest, sits down with Matthew Barrett to discuss his theological journey and why his views on polity and… Download Audio

Philosopher theologian, Paul Helm, recently died and is now with our Lord. You can read Matthew Barrett’s reflection on the life and legacy of you Helm here. Listen to Paul’s wisdom on this old episode of the Credo podcast: Are philosophy and theology antithetical or compatible? What is the proper relationship between faith and reason?… Download Audio

Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” And then he raised Lazarus from the dead. What does John 11 tell us about God and his governance of history? Matthew Barrett and Thomas Weinandy sit down together and ask how John 11 informs our understanding of classical theology. Thomas Weinandy has written a series… Download Audio

In this episode of Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett and Rev. Greg Peters continue their conversation about Anglican distinctives, captured in Greg’s new book, Anglican Spirituality: An Introduction. Barrett and Peters focus in on the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, and why it truly is a means of grace, making it a true sacrament. For Peters, the… Download Audio

What happens when a Baptist theologian is confronted with the beauty of Anglicanism? Matthew Barrett, with this episode’s guest Greg Peters, discusses his recent move from the SBC to Anglicanism and describes Anglican’s beautiful, participatory, traditional and scripture-filled liturgy. Rev. Peters, priest and professor at Biola University and Nashotah House Theological Seminary, connects Barrett’s experience… Download Audio

How can detailed discussions about Trinitarian processions and missions move you to greater love of God and understanding of scripture? In this episode of Credo podcast, Dr. Harrison Perkins, author of Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction, joins Matthew Barrett for an in-depth discussion of classical theology in John 17. Perkins outlines this passage as a… Download Audio

Most of us recognize that modern culture overvalues utilitarian content that can be grasped quickly, but what can atone for this deficit of beauty? In this episode of Credo podcast, Matthew Barrett interviews Jason Baxter of Benedictine College on his new book, Why Literature Still Matters: Beauty After the Apocalypse. They discuss the role of… Download Audio

Communion in the Book of Common Prayer is a movement of ascent, as the Lord lifts us up into the very presence of Christ. The English reformers recited the sursum corda, calling on the church to lift up their hearts. And yet they simultaneously saw communion as a “participation” in the body and blood of… Download Audio

To this day, the Book of Common Prayer has been unsurpassed. For five hundred years now its biblical beauty has penetrated the hearts of Christians. Some say the prayer book is simply scripture rearranged for worship. For this reason, the Anglican way of worship is immersed in scripture. But there’s something else: while so many… Download Audio

Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this second episode of the Credo Alliance to answer whether Natural Theology is consistent with the gospel. When considering God’s self-revelation, one must not exclude or ignore nature and the ways God reveals himself through his creation. Special revelation is not opposed to… Download Audio

Scott Swain, Matthew Barrett, Fred Sanders, and JV Fesko team up in this episode of the Credo Alliance to explain why Natural Theology matters, contrary to caricatures. In the last century theologians have objected to Natural Theology. But Natural Theology was taught by the Great Tradition and was a key component of Protestantism over the… Download Audio

There’s been a drastic shift in the understanding of the self over the last 200 years. We now tend to think of ourselves as unencumbered, expressive individuals who are most authentic when we are able to act outwardly on those things that truly define us: our inner feelings and desires. Additionally, our imaginations are now… Download Audio

Oftentimes, theologians will approach the doctrine of Christology in an isolated way, rarely bringing the doctrine of the Trinity into the discussion. As a result, we have succumbed to many Christological heresies across the centuries and more recently entertained Kenotic Christology. The collateral damage has been severe. For example, in the past generation it became… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo podcast, Dr. Matthew Barrett talks with D. A. Carson, emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and cofounder of The Gospel Coalition. Carson shares his inspiring story of how it all started, how he went from studying chemistry to studying theology and doing pastoral works. Carson… Download Audio