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Roy Ingle, “Best Books for an Arminian View of God”

SEA — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:24:32 +0000

[Editor’s note: This post is from 2009 and might include additional books if written today. But these are important works to know about.] J.I. Packer, in his classic book Knowing God, states that the study of…

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Roy Ingle, “The Inconsistency of Calvinism On Free Will and Sovereignty”

SEA — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:00:09 +0000

The nature of divine sovereignty and human freedom has been often debated by both Arminian and Calvinist theologians for centuries. From the birth of the early Church, human freedom and divine sovereignty have often been…

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A Short, Partially Annotated List of Arminian Systematic Theologies

Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:00:18 +0000

by Brian Abasciano Unfortunately, there are not a lot of good options for a contemporary comprehensive Arminian systematic theology text. Arminians tend to focus on exegesis more than systematic theology. So there are a number…

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Jack Cottrell, “Did The Early Christian Fathers Teach Calvinism?”

SEA — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:00:06 +0000

The following appeared on non-Calvinist scholar Jack Cottrell’s Facebook page (dated July 25, 2011): QUESTION: Some say that the doctrines of Calvinism did not begin with John Calvin, nor even with Augustine (died A.D. 430).…

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Jack Cottrell, “PHARAOH AS A PARADIGM FOR ISRAEL IN ROMANS 9:18”

SEA — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:42:24 +0000

Please click on the attachment to view Jack Cottrell, "PHARAOH AS A PARADIGM FOR ISRAEL IN ROMANS 9:18".

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Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Calvinist Bruce Ware Concerning Unconditional, Individual, Infralapsarian Election

SEA — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:37:10 +0000

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…

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Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Universalist Thomas Talbott’s “Universal Reconciliation and the Inclusive Nature of Election”

SEA — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:33:19 +0000

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…

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Jack W. Cottrell, Response to Calvinist Robert L. Reymond’s “A Consistent Supralapsarian Perspective on Election”

SEA — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:25:29 +0000

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…

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Jack Cottrell – Understanding God: God and Time

Kevin Jackson — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:07:39 +0000

An article by Arminian Theologian Jack Cottrell. Cottrell speculates about God’s relation to time, and the nature and extent of God’s foreknowledge. Is God timeless (outside of time)? Or does God experience time in some…

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Does Ephesians 1:1-11 Support Calvinism?

drwayman — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:36:49 +0000

The following is from Dr. Jack Cottrell. While he is neither a member of SEA or a self-declared Arminian, his thoughts on Ephesians 1 are very insightful.

QUESTION: Calvinists say that Ephesians 1:1-11 clearly establishes the absolute and all-inclusive sovereignty of God, including the unconditional predestination of the elect to salvation. How do you interpret this text?

ANSWER: A right understanding of Ephesians 1:1-11 begins with the recognition that God's purpose for Israel was from the beginning limited to preparing for the coming of the Messiah, namely, for the incarnation of God the Logos as the human person Jesus of Nazareth. Once the Messiah came, it was God's eternal purpose to merge all believing Israelites and all believing Gentiles into one new body called the church. This is the main point of the book of Ephesians, and it is the key to understanding the often misused passage in Ephesians 1:1-11.

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