Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 7108 Arminian theology is the other great system in the English-speaking Protestant world, and it is almost as frequently misrepresented as Calvinism. Many who reject Calvinism assume they must therefore be Arminian, and many Calvinists use the word as a synonym for shallow thinking. Neither assumption survives contact with the actual documents. I am…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7040. Prevenient grace is a term drawn mainly from Wesleyan and Arminian theology, and the word prevenient simply means going before. It describes a work of God in a person that comes before conversion, enabling a response that would otherwise be impossible. The doctrine exists to answer a genuine problem: if sin has damaged…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 07036. The argument between Calvinism and Arminianism has been running for four centuries and shows no sign of tiring, which tells you either that the questions are unanswerable or that they matter enormously. I think it is the second. What is at stake is how God saves, what human beings contribute, for whom Jesus…