Voluntarism

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…

Read Post →

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…

Read Post →

Roger Olson, “C. S. Lewis Said It: God’s ‘Goodness’ Cannot Be Wholly Other”

March 26, 2015 , SEA , Comment Closed

For years now I have been insisting that the main reason I am not a Calvinist (or any kind of divine determinist) is that, taken to its “good and necessary consequences,” Calvinism makes God morally…

Read Post →

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,…

Read Post →