In the last post on D. A. Carson we looked at the reasons why he considered the love of God to be a “difficult doctrine.” We agree that our view of God’s love has been greatly distorted but we disagreed as to the reasons why. In the following post I will lay out Carson’s own […]
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“Molinism” is a Christian belief system that claims to be a “middle position” between Arminianism (man has total free-will) and Calvinism (God is sovereign over all including man’s salvation). It was named after 16th Century Jesuit theologian Luis de Molina. In the exceedingly tight conundrum that both Arminians and Calvinists find themselves there has evolved this […]
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“The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God” is the title of a book by prolific author D. A. Carson, professor of New Testament studies at Trinity Evangelical Seminary. I will summarize the direction and purpose of the book and then point out some startling statements made by Carson himself in relation to his perspective […]
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Here is a segment of a discussion from Driscoll’s interview with Justin Brierly on Premier Radio. Robin Parry gives some insight into the implications of Driscoll’s reasoning on his Theological Scribbles: http://theologicalscribbles.blogspot.com/2012/01/driscoll-on-hell-and-manly-god.html They were in the process of discussing women in church leadership but Driscoll’s interpretation of the nature of hell interestingly came up […]
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A couple of favorite quotes from Justin Taylor’s blog, Between Two Worlds: Everything Sad Will Come Untrue “Is everything sad going to come untrue?” —Sam Gamgee to Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings (chapter 4, Book Six) “[Some mortals] say of some temporal suffering, “No future bliss can make up for it,” not knowing […]
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This review was initially posted on Amazon. It elicited a host of comments. We found the most interesting were by those folks defending Chandler’s view on hell on the basis of an Arminian free-will theology! It was a bit unsettling when it was explained to them that Chandler believed in salvation through predestination/election and that […]
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“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent […]
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If you are not tracking with the missional church movement or are unfamiliar with the rising new Calvinist leaders you may not have heard of Matt Chandler. This is not necessary in order for you to be either encouraged or challenged by the following statements from his book The Explicit Gospel released in early 2012. Matt […]
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