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René A. López, “IS FAITH A GIFT FROM GOD OR A HUMAN EXERCISE?”

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This article is posted with permission from the publisher, the scholarly journal Bibliotheca Sacra. Please click on the attachment to view René A. López, “IS FAITH A GIFT FROM GOD OR A HUMAN EXERCISE?” Bibliotheca Sacra 164 (July–September 2007) 259–76.

It should be noted that, while this is a learned and helpful article, López seems to have missed one major view on the question of whether faith is a gift of God, which is a more typical Arminian view than that it is not; and that is that faith is a gift in the sense that God must enable us to believe, but that like most gifts, it can be rejected and is not irresistible.

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John Goodwin, “Redemption Redeemed”

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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…

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Dorian G. Coover Cox, “The Hardening of Pharaoh

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This article is posted with permission from the publisher, the scholarly journal Bibliotheca Sacra. Please click on the attachment to view Dorian G. Coover Cox, “The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart in its Literary and Cultural…

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