Lemke, Steve

Steve Lemke on Irresistible Grace and Jesus’ Lament Over Jerusalem

December 19, 2024 , SEA , Comment Closed

Steve Lemke: “For example, hear again Jesus’s lament over Jerusalem: ‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem! [The city] who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together,…

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Book Review: “Free Will Revisited: A Respectful Response to Luther, Calvin, and Edwards. By Robert E. Picirilli”

April 22, 2019 , AndrewH , Comment Closed

Please click on the link to read Dr. Steve W. Lemke’s review of Free Will Revisited: A Respectful Response to Luther, Calvin, and Edwards by Arminian scholar Robert E. Picirilli. This review is published in…

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Richard E. Clark, “An Arminian’s Review of Anyone Can Be Saved”

August 23, 2017 , Richard Clark , Comment Closed

From General/Arminian to Particular/Calvinist, Baptists have struggled to locate themselves along the theological spectrum. Some have unsuccessfully tried to avoid the debate, labeling themselves Calminians.[1] Others, however, have attempted to escape the paradigm altogether and articulate…

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Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry Spring 2011, Vol. 8.1: Calvinist, Arminian, and Baptist Perspectives on Soteriology

November 20, 2014 , SEA , Comment Closed

Please click on the link to view the Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry (Spring 2011) Vol. 8.1: Calvinist, Arminian, and Baptist Perspectives on Soteriology. Please note that while there are articles from differing perspectives, the editorial…

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Quotable Quotes – Steve Lemke, Does Human Choice Contribute Anything to Salvation?

January 17, 2012 , Matthew Murphy , No Comment

Does human choice contribute anything to salvation? Steve Lemke answers:

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Quotable Quotes – Steve Lemke on Irresistible Grace and the Ministry of Jesus

December 30, 2011 , Matthew Murphy , No Comment

In his critique in Whosoever Will: A Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism, Steve Lemke made some great comments about the doctrine of Irresistible Grace when viewed in light of Jesus’ ministry:

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Steve W. Lemke, Agent Causation, or, How to Be a Soft Libertarian

December 19, 2011 , Godismyjudge , No Comment

Steve W. Lemke explains and argues for agent causation as both logical and biblical, an Arminian view of free will. Here is the attachment: libertarian agent causation

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Is There a Middle Ground Between Calvinism and Arminianism?

June 6, 2011 , SEA , Comment Closed

by Roger Olson

I’ve blogged about this before, but just yesterday Southern Baptist philosopher/theologian/seminary dean Steve Lemke, one of the editors of the excellent book Whosoever Will (which I highly recommended here) posted a message to the SBCToday blog accusing me of committing the fallacy of excluded middle for arguing that Southern Baptists like he are either Calvinists or Arminians and should admit it and (in his case) embrace the label Arminian — something he and the other authors of Whosoever Will reject.

Lemke’s post is here.

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