The Wesley Center Online has many different sources on Arminian theology. The link is a very basic sketch of who James Arminius was and links to his works. http://wesley.nnu.edu/arminianism/the-works-of-james-arminius/volume-1/a-sketch-of-the-life-of-james-arminius/
A gentleman who was being urged to accept Christ, said to the preacher, “There are some things in the Bible that seem to be highly contradictory. Christ must have overestimated Himself. Once He declared that…
It’s the St. Matthew Day edition of the Friday Files, our version of the Wayback Machine, in which we travel to the not-all-that-distant year of 2014 and poke around SEA’s website a little. The views…
Charles Wesley wrote approximately 9000 hymns and “holy” poems. Even though many of his polemics are in his songs, many Calvinists (and Arminians) sing Wesley’s hymns. One of Wesley’s strongest anti-calvinist hymns is “The Horrible…
It’s the St. Crescentius Day edition of the Friday Files, your weekly reminder SEA has had a website for years. Going back years. Not decades yet, but give us time. (Although if our Lord could…
One of the attacks often aimed toward Arminian theology is that Arminians do not believe in the sovereignty of God. It is argued by Calvinists that their theology embraces the absolute sovereignty of God in…
It’s the St. Regina Day edition of the Friday Files, your weekly reminder that SEA has years of fun stuff on our website. The views expressed therein aren’t necessarily those of SEA, and neither are…
The following is taken from The Works of Arminius on baptism. Arminius held to baptism by sprinking and he also practiced and taught infant baptism as can be seen from this article. This is one area of…
It’s the St. Aristides Day edition of the Friday Files, your weekly addition to your pile of stuff to read. Or if you’re voracious like me, finally something new. Except it’s not new, innit? But…
I often listen to Dr. William Lane Craig’s podcasts, both his general podcast and his Defenders class. They are very informative and I highly recommend them. In his most recent Defenders class, as of the…
It’s the St. Bartholemew Day edition of the Friday Files, in which we give you a little peek at older posts hosted on SEA’s site. The views they express are not necessarily, but often, those…
Please click on the link to view James Alex. Macdonald, Wesley’s Revision of the Shorter Catechism with Notes (Edinburgh: George A. Morton, 1906). The full title is Wesley’s Revision of The Shorter Catechism Agreed Upon by the…
In the last post, we explored Owen’s admission that there is a distinction between Christ obtaining spiritual blessings and the application of these blessings, which are given on the condition that a person believes. Owen’s solution, used…
It’s the St. Johann Gerhard Day edition of the Friday Files, our weekly look back at oldies-but-goodies from the SEA archives. The views they express are frequently those of SEA, but not always. SEA members’…
In part 1, we examined Owen’s contention: Christ’s death does not make salvation possible. It actually and infallibly applies the benefits of the cross to everyone that Christ died for. the [purpose] of our Saviour’s coming, … [was] namely, to “save sinners;”…
In part 1 of this series the dilemma that Owen poses to those who reject a limited/particular atonement was explored. According to Dr. Owen the options are: Universalism Accepting that God had no purpose or intention behind the…
In the Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1647), Dr. John Owen offers a famous argument for a limited atonement. That was explored in another post. In chapter 1 of Book I there is another challenge presented…
It’s the St. Bessus’s Day edition of the Friday Files, SEA’s weekly roundup of old posts. The views expressed therein are not necessarily that of SEA—but we did put ’em on our website, so there’s…
The story of the blind man in John 9 is a study in guilt. What makes us guilty, and what’s the relation between guilt and our ability to obey and believe God? Let’s do a…
By Christopher R. Cole I’m not the smartest theologian on the planet. In fact, I don’t even really consider myself to be a theologian at all. I am a pastor who is currently appointed to…
