Election–Common Ground Between Arminians and Calvinists
The often acrimonious debates between contemporary Arminians and Calvinists are not new. The history of this discussion dates back 1600 years and has been continuous within Christian circles. It can...
View ArticleThe “P” in TULIP
All who persevere in faith are elect. Both Calvinists and Arminians can agree with the above statement. For the Calvinist, those who do not persevere in faith, though they at one time seemingly had...
View ArticleEternal Security or “Once Saved, Always Saved”
There is considerable confusion in terminology when talking about current views of assurance on the theological scene. In this post I want to clarify at least one significant difference. Calvinists...
View ArticleThe Love and Glory of God
In my first post in the series on Arminianism and Calvinism, I suggested that at the heart of Calvinist theology is the desire to preserve the glory of God as the sole cause of salvation and that the...
View ArticleAssurance, Stone-Campbell History, and Calvinism
As an addendum to my series on Calvinism and Arminianism I want to connect this discussion to the conversions of Barton W. Stone and Alexander Campbell. Both first approached God through the lens of...
View ArticleStone-Campbell Hermeneutics II – Campbell’s Reformed Hermeneutic
This is a huge subject for a single post. I shall try to be brief. Warning: “brief” ended up being 2800+ words. In my first post in this series I noted a few of the modern (Enlightenment) Baconian...
View ArticleStone-Campbell Hermeneutics IV — Regulative Principle and Churches of Christ
My first two posts in this series focused on the Baconian and Reformed character of Alexander Campbell’s hermeneutic. My last post described how Churches of Christ have utilized the Baconian method. In...
View ArticleProvidence and Suffering: Can God Be Trusted? (SBD 11)
[Note: I am attempting to keep these SBD installments under 2000 words each, but that is–of course–quite inadequate for the topics covered. Consequently, these contributions are more programmatic than...
View ArticleWright on Justification
N. T. Wright’s new book, Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision, is primarily a response to John Piper’s The Future of Justification: A Response to N. T. Wright though he engages others as well...
View ArticleAriminius and Open Theism
Ever since the emergence of open theism on the evangelical scene in the 1990s, there have been several attempts to saddle Arminianism with the theological interests of open theism. On the one hand,...
View ArticleJonah 3:7-10 – God Repents!
The only Hebrew word for repentance used in Jonah—to turn (sub)—appears only in this section of Jonah. Twice it describes the Ninevites (Jonah 3:8, 10) who turn away from evil, but twice God is the...
View ArticleAriminius and Open Theism
Ever since the emergence of open theism on the evangelical scene in the 1990s, there have been several attempts to saddle Arminianism with the theological interests of open theism. On the one hand,...
View ArticleJonah 3:7-10 – God Repents!
The only Hebrew word for repentance used in Jonah—to turn (sub)—appears only in this section of Jonah. Twice it describes the Ninevites (Jonah 3:8, 10) who turn away from evil, but twice God is the...
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