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…
2017 Symposium Recap: Adam Holloway on Presuppositional Apologetics
Matt Pinson The burden of Adam Holloway’s well-done paper was to make a case that presuppositional forms of apologetics are the most effective type of apologetics in dealing with the postmodern condition. Holloway aimed to show in the paper that an approach to apologetics that starts with the…
2017 Symposium Recap: Joshua Colson on Calvin’s View of the Supper
Matt Pinson Josh Colson presented a well-written paper at the 2017 Theological Symposium on Calvin’s view of the Lord’s Supper. The purpose of the paper was to study Calvin’s view of the Lord’s Supper and make applications to the Protestant debate on the Supper, with special reference to…
2017 Symposium Recap – David Outlaw on Christopher Wright’s Missional Hermeneutic
Kevin L. Hester As part of the fall 2017 Theological Symposium sponsored by the Commission on Theological Integrity, Dr. David Outlaw, Global Education Specialist with Free Will Baptist International Missions, presented one of the more thought-provoking theological explorations. His reflection on Christopher Wright’s 2006 publication, The Mission of…
Addendum: Another Favorite Book from 2017
W. Jackson Watts Usually I manage to read a book or two during the holidays. Recently I read one I had wanted to read for years, but finally had an excuse to read it due to its pertinence to a current research project. It was Alister McGrath’s The…