3.13 Carl Trueman, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “Creeds and Confessions”

Episode 096
44 Min
March 20, 2024
ABOUT THE EPISODE
Listen in as Carl Trueman joins David Schrock and Stephen Wellum to discuss the importance of creeds and confessions in the church.
Timestamps
  • Intro – 00:47
  • Dr. Wellum’s Appreciation for Dr. Trueman’s Writings – 03:12
  • How Has Crisis of Confidence Developed? – 04:26
  • Looking Back to Creeds and Confessions in a time of Rapid Cultural Change – 07:06
  • Is There a Need for New Confessions? 09:36
  • Giving ‘Teeth’ to Our Confessions and Supplementary Documents – 14:15
  • Polity, and The Concern of Binding Consciences – 17:45
  • Five Different Enemies of Confessionalism – 25:20
  • Counsel for Living Under a Confession and Why that’s a Good Thing – 27:19
  • What Happens When Churches Wander from their Confessions? – 31:00
  • How Does Losing Our Humanity as a Culture Relate to Our Confessions? – 33:33
  • Anthropological Heresies – 38:54
  • What is the SBC Misunderstanding with the Removal of Confessionalism? – 40:10
  • Outro – 42:07
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Authors

  • Carl R. Trueman taught on the faculties of the Universities of Nottingham and Aberdeen before moving to the United States in 2001 to teach at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. In 2017-18 he was the William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the James Madison Program at Princeton University.  Since 2018, he has served as a professor at Grove City College. He is also a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributing editor at First Things. Trueman’s latest book is the bestselling The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. He is married with two adult children and is ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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  • David Schrock is the pastor for preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. David is a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a founding faculty member and professor of theology at Indianapolis Theology Seminary. And he is the author of Royal Priesthood and Glory of God along with many journal articles and online essays.

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  • Stephen Wellum is professor of Christian theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his MDiv and PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books. He is also the co-author with Peter Gentry of Kingdom through Covenant, 2nd edition (Crossway, 2012, 2018) and the author of God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ (Crossway, 2016) and Systematic Theology, Volume 1: From Canon to Concept (B&H Academic, 2024).

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