Convention Seminar Resource
Jackson Watts At this past National Association the Theological Commission sponsored its annual seminar/lecture on the topic of euthanasia, or what is more typically described as Physician-Assisted Suicide. In my judgment, this topic is one that many of us are not paying adequate attention to. I suppose in…
Free Will Baptists and the Evangelical Theological Society: Part 2
W. Jackson Watts In my previous post I discussed the value and significance of Free Will Baptists being involved with the Evangelical Theological Society. In this post I will focus more specifically on the 2018 Meeting and what it, and future meetings, may offer for our people. The…
Free Will Baptists and the Evangelical Theological Society
W. Jackson Watts In past posts on this blog I have highlighted the increased involvement of Free Will Baptists with the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). According to their website, ETS is a professional academic society of biblical and theological scholars, pastors, and students. As part of the society’s…
Was Arminius a Molinist? Richard Watson’s Answer
Matthew Pinson The other day I came across a wonderful quote that I had forgotten about from Richard Watson’s Theological Institutes. I thought the readers of this blog would enjoy it. It concerns Molinism, or middle knowledge, the theory of divine foreknowledge articulated by the sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian…
Did Arminius Think the Intellect Can Know the Good and Direct the Will Despite Sin?
Matt Pinson Recently I was re-reading Richard Muller’s God, Creation, and Providence in the Thought of Jacobus Arminius. Muller is thestellar scholar of Reformed scholasticism whose work, on the whole, has richly informed my thought and for whom I have great appreciation. Muller’s work, however, has emphasized his…