What I Like (and Don’t Like) about Non-Penal-Satisfaction Theories of Atonement

Matt Pinson Reformed Arminians emphasize what Leroy Forlines called the penal-satisfaction model of atonement. (Forlines, with scholars like Charles Hodge, J. I. Packer, and Thomas Oden, liked this more precise phrase that refers to what most people call penal-substitutionary atonement.) I have discussed this approach elsewhere at greater…

Matthew Barrett’s Forlines Lecture Series

Kevin Hester The Forlines Lecture Series at Welch College is named for long-time faculty member, dean, and Free Will Baptist theologian F. Leroy Forlines. It began in 1993 as a means of drawing leading scholars to campus to speak on emerging theological and cultural issues of the day.…

What Were the Reformers Doing?

W. Jackson Watts A Brief Comment on Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal Matthew Barrett is a name worth knowing. Barrett is a theology professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He’s perhaps the most prolific younger theologian in the Baptist orbit these days. His Amazon page is rather…

Revisiting George Eldon Ladd and Talk of the Kingdom

W. Jackson Watts (This post originally appeared as part of Newsletter #62 at Churchatopia, a blog/website operated by Commission member Jackson Watts. It has been lightly edited and reposted here.) Do you ever find yourself talking about the “already-not yet” when it comes to eschatology or most anything…

Were the General Baptists Biblicists?

Administrator Recently, Commission Chairman Matt Pinson contributed an article to The Lyceum on the English General Baptists entitled, “Were the General Baptists Biblicists?” The article can be read by clicking here or reading below. We also encourage readers to visit The Lyceum to learn more about their work. ____________________…
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