Editor’s Note: Mako Nagasawa does not formally identify as Arminian, but his essay is a good representation of the narrative understanding of election shared by many Arminians. Romans 9 – 11 is sometimes taken as…
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Predestination and Free Will in Romans 9 – 11, by Mako A. Nagasawa
Roger E. Olson, “An Arminian Account of Free Will”
Please click on the link to read Roger E. Olson, “An Arminian Account of Free Will“, from the Catalyst Resources website, originally published April, 2012.
Roger E. Olson, “Back to Theology: Again with Arminianism”
[This post was originally published at Dr. Olson’s blog, where comments can be made.] Back to Theology: Again with Arminianism BY ROGER E. OLSON When I first began this blog my primary intention was to focus…
Friday Files, 5 October 2018
It’s the St. Thraseas’s Day edition of the Friday Files, our weekly trip into SEA’s archives. Any summaries and views expressed belong to their authors, and sometimes (but not always) SEA as a whole. SEA…
FWS Podcast: Salvation (Part 3 & 4)
In these episodes, Dr. Vic Reasoner will continue to discuss the doctrine of Salvation. Alternative Link: Salvation Part 3 Alternative Link: Salvation Part 4
Arminius – On The Manner In Which Theology Must Be Taught
1. It has long been a maxim with those philosophers who are the masters of method and order, that the theoretical sciences ought to be delivered in a synthetical order, but the practical in an…
Arminius – On Blessedness, The End Of Theology
1. The end of theology is the blessedness of man; and that, not animal or natural, but spiritual and supernatural. 2. It consists in fruition, the object of which is a perfect, chief, and sufficient…
Arminius – Nine Theological Questions
THE NINE QUESTIONS: NINE OPPOSITE QUESTIONS 1. Which is first, Election, or Faith Truly Foreseen, so that God elected his people according to faith foreseen? 1. Is the decree “for bestowing Faith on any one,”…
Friday Files, 28 September 2018
It’s the St. Eustochium’s Day edition of the Friday Files, SEA’s weekly extra dose of reading material, dug out of the archives ’cause it’s there. (And still good.) All views expressed are those of their…
Amazing Price on the Kindle Version of The Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible – Act Quickly!
Here at SEA, we don’t know how long this amazing resource will be offered at the low price of $2.99! SEA appreciates that the editors of this study Bible are Craig Keener and John Walton,…
A Sketch Of The Life Of James Arminius
The Wesley Center Online has many different sources on Arminian theology. The link is a very basic sketch of who James Arminius was and links to his works. http://wesley.nnu.edu/arminianism/the-works-of-james-arminius/volume-1/a-sketch-of-the-life-of-james-arminius/
How Christ Draws
A gentleman who was being urged to accept Christ, said to the preacher, “There are some things in the Bible that seem to be highly contradictory. Christ must have overestimated Himself. Once He declared that…
Seven Minute Seminary: “Wesleyan-Arminianism is a God-Centered, Not Human-Centered Theology”
(Joshua McNall)
In this Seven Minute Seminary, Dr. Joshua McNall helps clarify the origin of salvation and how this illuminates the character of God, answering the charge sometimes laid at Wesleyan-Arminianism that it is a human-centered theology. The…
Friday Files, 21 September 2018
It’s the St. Matthew Day edition of the Friday Files, our version of the Wayback Machine, in which we travel to the not-all-that-distant year of 2014 and poke around SEA’s website a little. The views…
Michael Egnor, “More Than Material Minds”
As a Christian and a neuroscientist, I keep learning that to be human is to have a soul. Please click on the link to view Michael Egnor, “More Than Material Minds,” Christianity Today September 14, 2014.
“The Horrible Decree” by Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley wrote approximately 9000 hymns and “holy” poems. Even though many of his polemics are in his songs, many Calvinists (and Arminians) sing Wesley’s hymns. One of Wesley’s strongest anti-calvinist hymns is “The Horrible…
Dr. Michael L. Brown, “The Real Meaning of ‘On Earth as It Is in Heaven’”
Dr. Brown takes an exegetical look at a simple Bible verse to dispel a common misunderstanding of the text. As usual Dr. Brown is short and to the point. https://askdrbrown.org/library/real-meaning-%E2%80%98-earth-it-heaven%E2%80%99
Friday Files, 14 September 2018
It’s the St. Crescentius Day edition of the Friday Files, your weekly reminder SEA has had a website for years. Going back years. Not decades yet, but give us time. (Although if our Lord could…
FWS Podcast: Salvation (Parts 1 & 2)
In these episodes, Dr. Vic Reasoner will begin to discuss the doctrine of Salvation. Alternative Link: Salvation (Part 1) Alternative Link: Salvation (Part 2)
Roy Ingle, “Do Arminians Truly Embrace God’s Sovereignty?”
One of the attacks often aimed toward Arminian theology is that Arminians do not believe in the sovereignty of God. It is argued by Calvinists that their theology embraces the absolute sovereignty of God in…
