Grider. J. Kenneth - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org Not willing that any should perish Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:44:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://evangelicalarminians.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/footer-logo-60x60.png Grider. J. Kenneth - Society of Evangelical Arminians https://evangelicalarminians.org 32 32 224740200 Vic Reasoner, “Gliding With Grider” https://evangelicalarminians.org/vic-reasoner-gliding-with-grider/ Fri, 14 May 2021 16:24:52 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=22477 The most recent attempt to state the Wesleyan interpretation of theology is found in Kenneth Grider’s A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology (Kansas City: Beacon Hill, 1994). Among Grider’s positive contributions: 1. He interprets “the old man” as…

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]]> 22477 A Short, Partially Annotated List of Arminian Systematic Theologies https://evangelicalarminians.org/a-short-partially-annotated-list-of-arminian-systematic-theologies/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:00:18 +0000 http://evangelicalarminians.org/?p=9760 by Brian Abasciano Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good options for a contemporary comprehensive Arminian systematic theology text. Arminians tend to focus on exegesis more than systematic theology. So there are a number…

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]]> 9760 Predestination As Temporal Only https://evangelicalarminians.org/predestination-as-temporal-only/ https://evangelicalarminians.org/predestination-as-temporal-only/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:09:36 +0000 Predestination As Temporal Only

From the Wesleyan Theological Journal
J. Kenneth Grider

One of the most interesting theological finds I have made in recent years is that God's predestinating of us does not seem to have to do with eternal destiny.

God does indeed predestinate us in certain ways. Six times the word for "to predestinate" is used in the NT. Besides the instances of cognates of that very word "proorizo," other "pro" words are found in both Testaments which also show that God makes pre-decisions on various matters. And God sometimes makes decrees, even as kings do, according to Scripture. But my recent study suggests that none of these references has to do with our eternal destiny, but only with other matters.

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]]> https://evangelicalarminians.org/predestination-as-temporal-only/feed/ 0 306 The Nature of Wesleyan Theology https://evangelicalarminians.org/the-nature-of-wesleyan-theology/ https://evangelicalarminians.org/the-nature-of-wesleyan-theology/#respond Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:07:52 +0000 The Nature of Wesleyan Theology

From the Wesleyan Theological Journal
J. Kenneth Grider

Theology, when it is entered into by us Wesleyans, takes on a certain nature, in relation to other theologies: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican, Calvinist. It is of the very nature of Wesleyan theology that it has (1) an experiential interest, (2) an existential element, (3) a large-scoped biblical character, (4) a dynamic quality, (5) a catholicity, and 6) a homing instinct for the moral.

Its Experiential Interest

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