Nominalism

Roger Olson, “Again with ‘Good God’ and Calvinism”

November 5, 2018 , SEA , Comment Closed

Throughout the years of this blog (and before and outside of it) I have wrestled with people objecting most strenuously to my contention that true, historical, consistent Calvinism undermines the goodness of God. If God foreordains…

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Ben Witherington and Roger Olson, “Roger Olson’s Arminian Theology – Part 8”

November 17, 2016 , SEA , Comment Closed

BEN: On p. 89 you talk about the idea of nominalistic voluntarism, which is to say the idea that God is free to do anything he chooses to do, without being constrained or limited by…

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Roger Olson, “Calvinist Attempts to Rescue God’s Character Considered and Refuted”

April 16, 2015 , SEA , Comment Closed

As anyone who has read me or listened to me (on the subject of Calvinism) knows, my main complaint about Calvinism is that it undermines the character of God. Of course, I do not mean…

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Predestined to Eternally Suffer? An Interview with Philosopher Jerry Walls

June 13, 2014 , SEA , 1 Comment

Please click on the link to view Predestined to Eternally Suffer? An Interview with Philosopher Jerry Walls. [Please note that while Jerry Walls believes in the possibility of post mortem salvation, that is not a…

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The Almost Completely Unknown Difference that Makes All the Difference

July 8, 2013 , SEA , 2 Comments

The Almost Completely Unknown Difference that Makes All the Difference…. written by Roger E Olson, PhD We talk endlessly about differences among Christians: Catholic versus Protestant, Calvinist versus Arminian, liberal versus conservative, neo-fundamentalist versus postconservative,…

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