In the context of Christian theology, what is Tradition? And what is it for? Is it a unified, monolithic body of doctrines, from which we deviate at our peril? Is it a quarry of texts,[…]
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Author: David Grubbs
Christian Humanist Profiles 202: Baptists and the Catholic Tradition
While Baptists may profess the unity of God’s Church, we are also Dissenters from way back, ready to die on the hill of our unshakeable convictions. Still, the vision of the Church’s future is the[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 201: Baptists and the Christian Tradition
Baptists have an odd relationship with the Christian tradition. Some of their most distinctive beliefs and practices seem difficult to square with the views of other Christian communions past and present. Of course, for some[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 175: The Story of Creeds and Confessions
Throughout her long history, Christ’s Church has been united and divided by words. For that reason, our creeds and confessions often have mixed reputations: they are the pure apostolic tradition; they are ephemera of a[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 174: The Monkhood of All Believers
What is a monk? The word evokes the image of a man robed and cowled, tonsured in the West, bearded in the East. It recalls the architecture of the monastery, the chanting of the Daily[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 173: Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination
There’s a lot of poetry in the Bible. Anyone who flips through its pages can see how many have that telltale jagged edge of printed verse. But it’s not only proportion: the weightiest moments, the[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 170: The Meaning of Protestant Theology
Ask what principle Martin Luther put at the center of his Protestant Reformation theology, and you’ll get several good answers: justification by faith alone; the primacy of scriptural authority over ecclesial authority; the theology of[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 168: Quest for the Historical Apostles
After His resurrection, Jesus called His eleven remaining disciples and gave them a mission: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 167: Introducing Medieval Interpretation
Perhaps no era of biblical interpretation is less appreciated than the Middle Ages. After all, weren’t the medievals at best just perpetuators of patristic readings, and at worst the most unbounded and fantastic of allegorists?[…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 262.2: The Enchiridion of Epictetus
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour chat about the Stoic Epictetus’s short Enchiridion, whilst Michial Farmer gallivants about England. The Enchiridion of Epictetus
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