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Richard Coords, “Irresistible Grace”
[This post has been excerpted with permission from Richard Coords, Calvinism Answered Verse by Verse and Subject by Subject, © 2020.] In Calvinism, everyone who will ever become saved is already predetermined from eternity past,…
Could You Explain an Arminian Perspective of Regeneration and How It Can Be “Undone” If a Believer Forsakes the Faith?
On his website, Arminian Perspectives, Ben Henshaw has a questions page at which he answers questions about Arminianism and Calvinism that visitors to his site pose in the comment section of the page. Here is a question…
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, “The Insanity of Denying Free Will”
Reductive materialism defeats itself when matter is the only thing that matters. Please click on the link to view John Stonestreet and Shane Morris, “The Insanity of Denying Free Will.”
Brian Abasciano, “How Do Predestination and Free Will Go Together? A Simple, Succinct Answer”
There is certainly a place for extensive, detailed answers to questions about profound, complex matters. But there is also a place for brief, simple answers to such questions. Here is an attempt to simply and…
Charles Wesley, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus”
In light of the current Christmas season of 2023, we posted yesterday on Arminian churchman Charles Wesley (brother of John Wesley) and his Christmas carol “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.” As that post mentioned, Charles…
Charles Wesley, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
Arminian churchman and brother of John Wesley, Charles Wesley, is considered to be one of the greatest hymn writers of all time and was labeled by one Christian History article as the “greatest hymn writer of…
Mark K. Olson, “Early Methodist Christology”
Christmas is a season we celebrate the incarnation. The 18th century saw the rise of anti-Trinitarian theologies that undermined belief in Christ’s deity. Some scholars argue that John Wesley held a deficient view of the…
Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation”
This article is part of a series on the Assembly of God Statement of Fundamental Truths. Please click on the link to view Allen Tennison, “What We Believe About … Salvation.”
The Equivocal Doctrine of the Love of God: A Critique of D. A. Carson’s The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
Please click on the link to view “The Equivocal Doctrine of the Love of God: A Critique of D. A. Carson’s The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God” by Arminius Redivivus.
Jason A. Staples, “Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:20–23”
Please click on the link to view Jason A. Staples, “Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:20–23,” Harvard Theological Review, Volume 115, Issue 2, April 2022, pp. 197-218. Author’s abstract: Starting…
Andrew Sullivan, “Harmony of the Arminian Faith: A Proposal to the Global Methodist Church, Chapter 1”
The United Methodist Church, being formed in 1968 by a merger between the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church (i.e., the German speaking Methodist church), is finally at an end. Torn apart on…
B. J. Oropeza, “Paul and Lukan Predestination? Rereading Acts 13:48 Through the Lens of Isaiah”
Please click on the link to view B. J. Oropeza, “Paul and Lukan Predestination? Rereading Acts 13:48 through the Lens of Isaiah.” Author’s abstract: This is a study on the controversial passage of Acts 13:48,…
B. J. Oropeza, “Predestination in Acts 13:48? “’Those Who Were Appointed to Eternal Life Believed'”
Please click on the link to view B. J. Oropeza, “Predestination in Acts 13:48? “’Those Who Were Appointed to Eternal Life Believed’”
We are Starting to Post on Our Website Again Starting Monday of This Coming Week!
Back in February of 2022, we stopped adding material to this website for the most part because of problems we were having with the site. We had to do some major work on the site…
Brian Abasciano’s New Book on Romans 9:19-24 Is Out, and We Have a Flyer with a 35% Discount
Brian Abasciano’s new book is out — Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans 9:19-24: An Intertextual and Theological Exegesis, JSNTSup/LNTS, 429; London: T&T Clark, 2022. It is out this month in electronic format…
Website/Posting Update 3
Posting has been paused for the last five months or so for the purpose of fixing our website. Well, we are on the cusp of the necessary work on the website beginning. Hopefully, we will…
Website/Posting Update 2
Posting has been paused for the last month or so (except for the Fundamental Wesleyan Society podcast posts on Thursdays) for the purpose of fixing our website. It looks like posting will be paused for…
Pausing Posting While We Fix the Website
As you might have noticed, our website has been having trouble for a while now. It has gotten bad enough that we have to do some serious work on the site to fix it, perhaps…
Mark K. Olson, “The Revival and Methodist Self-Understanding”
Abstract: This second installment [you can see the first one here] examines how early Methodists understood Methodism as an eschatological movement, called to help usher in the millennium through the proclamation of salvation and holiness.…
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