Please click on the attachment to view Robert E. Picirilli’s response to open theism in his article entitled, “AN ARMINIAN RESPONSE TO JOHN SANDERS’S THE GOD WHO RISKS: A THEOLOGY OF PROVIDENCE“, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 44/3 (September 2001) 467–91.
“If we are justified by faith, it should come as no surprise that the devil would attempt to redefine “faith.” Saving faith has been reduced to a one-time decision for Christ. However, the New Testament…
Please click on the appropriately titled attachment to view George Bryson, The Five Points of Calvinism: “Weighed and Found Wanting”: Bryson. THE FIVE POINTS OF CALVINISM_ WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING Note: (1) Bryson says that…
Click on the attachment at the bottom to view Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, “THE COMPASSIONATE GOD OF TRADITIONAL JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS,” Tyndale Bulletin 58.2 (2007) 183-207. The author’s summary of the article follows. Interestingly, the article…
Please click on the attachment to view James Morison, Exposition of the Ninth Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans: A New Edition, Re-written, to which is Added an Exposition of the Tenth Chapter (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888).
Please click on the attachment to view McKnight, Scot. “Blog Posts on Post-Calvinism”
This file is a collection of blog posts made by distnguished New Testament scholar Scot McKnight at his blog, Jesus Creed
Please click on the attachment to view Scot McKnight, “The Warning Passages in Hebrews: A Formal Analysis and Theological Conclusions” (published in Trinity Journal 13NS [1992] 21-59).
This article continues McCall’s critique of a popular Calvinistic view of God’s sovereignty as represented by John Piper, which can be applied to the standard view of Calvinism, i.e., exhaustive determinism, which includes God’s unconditional…
This article critiques a popular Calvinistic view of God’s sovereignty as represented by John Piper and can be applied to the standard view of Calvinism, i.e., exhaustive determinism, which includes God’s unconditional decree of all sin and evil.
Please click on the attachment to view Thomas McCall, “I Believe in Divine Sovereignty”, Trinity Journal 29/2 (Fall 2008) 205-226.
Please click on the attachment below to view Marshall, I. Howard. “The Theology of the Atonement.” This paper was given at a joint Evangelical Alliance/London School of Theology Symposium on the Atonement held at the…
Please click on the attachment to view I. Howard Marshall, “The Problem of Apostasy in New Tesament Theology”, published as an epilogue to I. Howard Marshall, Kept by the Power of God: A Study of Perseverance…
Please click on the attachment to view I. Howard Marshall, “For All, for All My Saviour Died,” published in Semper Reformanda: Studies in Honour of Clark H. Pinnock (ed. Stanley E. Porter and Anthony R.…
With the exception of the ninth chapter of Romans, few passages in the Bible are thought to teach the doctrine of predestination as convincingly as the first chapter of Ephesians. Perhaps equally persuasive are the…
The sixth chapter of John’s Gospel is either a monster text in support of Calvinistic predestination, or else a fountain of revelation on some other spiritual truth. Admittedly, exegesis of this chapter by Arminian scholars…
Please click on the attachment to view Klein, William W. “PAUL’S USE OF KALEIN: A PROPOSAL” (published in JETS 27/1 [March 1984] 53-64). Klein. Paul’s Use of Kalein
This article can be viewed below on this page and is also contained in this pdf attachment (the pdf file retains the author’s formatting and uses footnotes while this page uses endnote style and has…
Please click on the attachment to view Richard Watson, On Omniscience, which is an excerpt from his Theological Institutes. This treatment of God’s omniscience contains an important discussion of the concepts of necessity, contingency, and…
Here’s a little theological humor in the form of a cartoon that can be related to the Calvinist doctrine of irresistible grace.
John Wesley (Perseverance)
This article is posted with the permission of Trinity Theological Journal and the author. Please click on the attachment to view Gordon C. I. Wong, “Make Their Ears Dull: Irony in Isaiah 6:9-10” Trinity Theological Journal 16 (2008) 24-34.
Here is the author’s abstract:
In Isaiah 6:9-10, the prophet appears to be commissioned by God to make the ears of the people dull in order to prevent them from repenting. This article begins by proposing that these verses are better understood as rhetorical irony designed to persuade the people to (and not prevent them from) repentance. An alternative rhetorical interpretation and three literal interpretations are also discussed and rejected in favour of the view that assumes the use of irony.
