Christopher Chapman, of A Disciple’s Theology, posts: “Reading and Believing the Whole Bible.” Andrew C. Thompson highlights: “Wesleyan Practices of Evangelism.” Roy Ingle, of Arminian Today, writes: “The Contrasts in John 3:36.” Seedbed offers: “12…
Back in December of 2009, I wrote a letter to the NIV Translation Committee recommending a change in their translation of Acts 13:48. I have been meaning to make it publicly availabe on SEA’s site…
[For a pdf of this article, see here.] James White responded to my brief article, “James White’s Faulty Treatment of the Greek and Context of Acts 13:48” on his “Dividing Line” radio program of March 8,…
Mike Barlotta, of Dead Heroes Don’t Save, argues against a common but erroneous challenge to Arminianism in “Neutral Zone Infraction.” Arminian Theology responds: “Feedback: Arminians Limit the Power of the Atonement.” Dr. Craig Keener, of…
FORUM15 | BIBLE CONFERENCE is for pastors, youth workers, church leaders, and students. The Conference is sponsored and hosted by Welch College. Featured Speakers Dr. Robert Coleman, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA Dr. Michael…
Hearty thanks go to publishers Wipf & Stock for re-publishing theologian Emil Brunner’s three volume Dogmatics which was originally published in English by Lutterworth Press in England and subsequently by Westminster Press in America. At…
by Brian Abasciano Here are some comments I made in the Society of Evangelical Arminians private discussion group on James White’s treatment of Acts 13:48 in his book The Potter’s Freedom: A Defense of the Reformation…
Please click on the attachment to view Charles Edward White, “John Calvin’s five-point misunderstanding of Romans 9: An Intertextual Analysis,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 41 (Fall 2006) 28-50.
Augustine (354-430) is considered one of the most influential Christian theologians and philosophers. In the Parchment and Pen Top 10 theologian series, he was ranked #1. As a young man, Augustine studied rhetoric. During his…
Matt O’Reilly, of Orthodoxy for Everyone, posts: “Objectivity Redivivus? Holloway vs. N.T. Wright.” Martin Glynn, of The Irish Protestant, critiqued Geoff Ashley’s “Do We Have Free Will” (Part One, Part Two). Craig Adams, of Commonplace…
Please click on the link to view Ron Callaway, “The Omniscience of God and Open Theism” Integrity 3 (2006) 111-139.
They may make strange bedfellows but on one issue some Calvinists, many atheists, and most process theologians agree: there is no real difference between “doing evil” and “permitting evil.” For them, the traditional claim of…
In Udo Middelmann’s The Innocence of God, he grants us biblical evidence advocating the truth that God is innocent of the tragedies and evil experienced by and among fallen human beings. God has neither decreed…
Audio files of expository sermons by Arminian pastor Ben Henshaw of Rand Memorial Congregational Church (Seabrook, NH) are now available online at https://randmemorialchurch.wordpress.com/sermons/. Normally, a new sermon goes up every week.
Seedbed highlights: “Carolyn Moore on Being a Woman in Ministry,” “Why Christians Worship the Trinity,” “40 Day Lenten Challenge: Sing the Psalms Daily,” and “8 Things to Pray for Related to ISIS, War, and Terrorism.”…
I recently received this e-mail message from a total stranger. This is why I wrote Against Calvinism–simply to show that Calvinism is not the only Christian option and to point away from it to alternatives (primarily…
Please click on the link to view Thomas C. Thornton, Theological Colloquies, or A Compendium of Christian Divinity. This is basically a systematic theology from 1837 by Methodist scholar Thomas C. Thornton coming in at…
Romans 9 is often the “go to” text for Calvinists. They hold that it is about individual election to salvation — that God unconditionally chooses to save certain individuals, and that he unconditionally rejects and…
Calvinism’s standard position is exhaustive divine determinism, that God unconditionally decreed all things, including sin and evil, every sin, every evil act, every thought, motive, desire, mood, decision, everything. One standard criticism of Calvinism is…
