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EVERETT BERRY: I want to offer three reflections on ideas that need attention if we are to move forward in collaborative efforts between biblical scholars and theologians.
MATTHEW WIREMAN: The Bible encourages us to employ every sense we have in the worship and adoration of the God who breathed into our nostrils life and the sweetness of grace.
CODY GLEN BARNHART: To know God, we must learn—and to learn, we must have a grasp of language, including speech, syllables, and grammar.
JOHN R. GILHOOLY: The chief organizing idea of Thomas's question 13 is an epistemological doctrine that Aquinas has from Boethius (and Aristotle): everything is known according to the power of the knower.
Toplady’s sentiments were no impediment to fellowship for two stalwart Baptists like Ryland and Gifford.
Backus’ approach to civil and religious matters during the American Revolution provides insights into how complex and difficult these days were for the Baptist movement.
STAFF: At the end of April, we held our second in-person event on the campus of Oklahoma Baptist University.
R. LUCAS STAMPS: Baptists can and should affirm every line in the Nicene Creed, including the baptism clause, without any reservation.
We wholeheartedly support this proposed amendment and pray that Southern Baptists will eagerly and joyfully adopt this motion through the appropriate channels, beginning at this year’s annual convention.
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.
CBR STAFF: The Trinity in the Canon demonstrates that trinitarian theology derives directly from Scripture and should produce both right doctrine and right living.
R. LUCAS STAMPS: Despite its diversity, the consistent accent in Baptist political theology has been placed upon religious liberty.
BRANDON D. SMITH: After a fight like the Trinity debate, there becomes a danger of creating a Cage Stage Trinitarianism movement.
NEWS: This renaming of CBR and partnership with OBU also represents a shift in our ministry.
CODY GLEN BARNHART: Early Christianity functioned in a similar way to a lot of the philosophies surrounding it.
WINSTON HOTTMAN: Pastoral Care is Gregory’s most important contribution to pastoral theology and comes down to us as a definitive classic.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Catholicity as contribution—how a particular denomination or tradition adds its voice of the church catholic’s choir.
In 2023, we turn our attention to the topic of Christian spirituality for the CBR Reading Challenge.
CBR STAFF: About a month ago, we gathered for our first ever Center for Baptist Renewal event at Oklahoma Baptist University. Here are a few reflections.
WILLIAM JACKSON: Antiochenes did not believe God would inject meaning beyond the capabilities of a faithful, illumined, and curious interpreter.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Five reasons to affirm Jesus’s impeccability: that he was unable and never even desired to sin.
BRANDON D. SMITH: A positive articulation of “fromness” with respect to Trinitarian theology.
Complete this short survey for a chance to win a copy of Jamieson and Wittman’s Biblical Reasoning: Christological and Trinitarian Rules for Exegesis.
BRANDON D. SMITH: Thomas Aquinas helps us answer the question, is it fitting for God to become a creature?
Latest Podcast Episodes
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.
In this episode, Luke Stamps is joined by special guest Timothy George to discuss the contribution and legacy of Celtic Spirituality. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.
In this episode, Winston Hottman and Luke Stamps are joined by special guest Nathan Finn to discuss Andrew Fuller and his work Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785). This episode is the eighth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.