Credenda/Agenda

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Credenda/Agenda is Christian cultural journal, published under the auspices of Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho. Douglas Wilson serves as Editor, Douglas Jones as Senior Editor, and Nathan D. Wilson as Managing Editor. Editions are published bi-monthly in print form and also electronically on the internet.

Credenda/Agenda began appearing in 1988 as a loose-paper pamphlet, though the format was revised in 1997 to a full-page magazine.

[edit] Subject matter

The magazine's subject matter is typically of a religious nature, though film and book reviews, satire of prominent news stories, poems, and short stories are common. Each issue has a general theme around which many of the articles center. Past themes have included escapism, paedocommunion, the Textus Receptus, sex, cheese, C. S. Lewis, and Beowulf.

Broadly, the maganize advocates a Reformed soteriology (though some nuances differ from the traditional formulations), a liturgical approach to worship, a Van Tillian approach to apologetics, the federal headship of men within the family, and the cultivation of the mind through the liberal arts and the Western tradition.

A number of the articles from the magazine have been collected and expanded into books such as Doug and Nancy Wilson's series on marriage -- Reforming Marriage (1995), Fruit of Her Hands (1997), Standing on the Promises (1997), Federal Husband (1999), etc. -- and Angels in the Architecture (1998).

[edit] Controversy

Credenda/Agenda has played a part in conservative Calvinist circles in the controversy regarding the New Perspective on Paul, a debate that still continues in the Reformed churches as of 2006. Though Credenda/Agenda itself did not directly deal with the debate, an issue was devoted to explaining the editors' stance since considerable controversy centered around Douglas Wilson.

The magazine is known also for a number of other traditionally unorthodox positions, including its rejection of the Calvinist doctrine known as the regulative principle of worship and its advocacy for paedocommunion.