Credo Magazine

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 consider acquired and infused virtue, the danger of vice, and how grace heals the whole person.

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 consider acquired and infused virtue, the danger of vice, and how grace heals the whole person.

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 heaven. Instead, it impacts our daily lives, comforting us in our suffering and strengthening us for ordinary obedience. Join us this Fall, October 17th, for Aquinas KC.

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 heaven. Instead, it impacts our daily lives, comforting us in our suffering and strengthening us for ordinary obedience. Join us this Fall, October 17th, for Aquinas KC.

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 reason.

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 reason.

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 reveal man’s innate search for the beatific vision through our search for wisdom and in our need to harmonize our lives with reality.

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 reveal man’s innate search for the beatific vision through our search for wisdom and in our need to harmonize our lives with reality.

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 we look and hope. In this Credo conference message, Michael Allen reminds us that Christ is not a means to gain things—he is the end of all things. We seek peace, beauty, and the good. In a word, we seek glory.

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 we look and hope. In this Credo conference message, Michael Allen reminds us that Christ is not a means to gain things—he is the end of all things. We seek peace, beauty, and the good. In a word, we seek glory.