Arminian scholar and SEA member Dr. Michael Brown debated with Calvinist scholar and apologist James White on predestination, election, and the will of God at Southern Evangelical Seminary on February 14, 2013. To order the…
Election
Jerry L. Walls and Paul Sloan, “What’s Wrong with Calvinism Part VI: Other Key New Testament Texts on Election and Predestination”
From the video’s YouTube page: Part six of a series of theological discussions in which Dr. Jerry L. Walls explains what is wrong with Calvinism. In this segment exploring “Calvinism and the Bible” he and…
Jerry L. Walls and Paul Sloan, “What’s Wrong with Calvinism Part V: A Theological and Contextual Reading of Romans 9”
From the video’s YouTube page: Part five of a series of theological discussions in which Dr. Jerry L. Walls explains what is wrong with Calvinism. In the previous video, he and Paul Sloan explored the…
John Goodwin, “Redemption Redeemed”
Now available here online, John Goodwin’s Redemption Redeemed may be the best defense of Arminianism ever written. Published in 1651 by the Arminian Puritan John Goodwin (1593-1665), it is written in seventeenth century English with…
Glen Shellrude, “The Freedom of God in Mercy and Judgment: A Libertarian Reading of Romans 9:6-29”
Please click on the attachment to view Glen Shellrude, “The Freedom of God in Mercy and Judgment: A Libertarian Reading of Romans 9:6-29”, Evangelical Quarterly 81.4 (2009), 306–318. Here is the author’s abstract: Romans 9:6-26…
Gary S. Shogren, “Presently Entering the Kingdom of Christ: The Background and Purpose of Col 1:12-14”
Please click on the attachment to view Gary S. Shogren, “Presently Entering the Kingdom of Christ: The Background and Purpose of Col 1:12-14”, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 31.2 (1988) 173-180. This article does…
Christopher Skinner, “Predestined for Hell?”
Please click on the attachment to view Skinner, Christopher. “Predestined for Hell?”, which is a cogent, brief exegesis of Romans 9: Skinner. Romans 9
Thomas Taylor, A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism
Please click on the attachment to view Thomas Taylor, A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism This work from 1819 is an open letter to John Wesley from Thomas Taylor, who composes ten…
Jack Cottrell, “PHARAOH AS A PARADIGM FOR ISRAEL IN ROMANS 9:18”
Please click on the attachment to view Jack Cottrell, “PHARAOH AS A PARADIGM FOR ISRAEL IN ROMANS 9:18”.
Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Calvinist Bruce Ware Concerning Unconditional, Individual, Infralapsarian Election
This is Cottrell’s response to Bruce A. Ware’s essay, “DIVINE ELECTION TO SALVATION: UNCONDITIONAL,INDIVIDUAL, AND INFRALAPSARIAN”, both in Perspectives on Election: Five Views (Ed. Chad Owen Brand; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006). Click on the…
Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Universalist Thomas Talbott’s “Universal Reconciliation and the Inclusive Nature of Election”
This is Cottrell’s response to Thomas Talbott’s essay, “UNIVERSAL RECONCILIATION AND THE INCLUSIVE NATURE OF ELECTION”, both in Perspectives on Election: Five Views (Ed. Chad Owen Brand; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006). Click on the…
Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Calvinist Robert L. Reymond’s “A Consistent Supralapsarian Perspective on Election”
This is Cottrell’s response to Robert L. Reymond’s essay, “A Consistent Supralapsarian Perspective on Election”, both in Perspectives on Election: Five Views (Ed. Chad Owen Brand; Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006). Unlike the version in…
Joshua Ratliff, “Ephesians 1:3-4: An Explanation of the Corporate and Christocentric Nature of Election”
Please click on the attachment to view Joshua Ratliff, “Ephesians 1:3-4: An Explanation of the Corporate and Christocentric Nature of Election” Ratliff. Ephesians 1.3-4. An Explanation of the Corporate and Christcentric Nature of Election
Divine Election and Predestination in Ephesians 1
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…
John 6 and Calvinism in Fresh Perspective
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…
Klein, William W. “PAUL’S USE OF KALEIN: A PROPOSAL”
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
William W. Klein, “Is Corporate Election Merely Virtual Election?”
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…
Bruce Hollenbach, “Lest They Should Turn and Be Forgiven: Irony”
Please click one of the attachments* to view Bruce Hollenbach, “Lest They Should Turn and Be Forgiven: Irony”, Bible Translator 34.3 (July 1983) 312-21. The ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials provides the following abstract of…
Calvinism’s Missing Contexts- Part 1
This blog post is written by pastor Christopher Chapman, a member of SEA. Philippians 1:29 “For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him…
Calvinism’s Missing Contexts-Part 2
This blog post is written by pastor Christopher Chapman, a member of SEA. As we search the scriptures honestly and diligently to find answers to our questions about various issues about living in God’s kingdom…
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