As a follow up to an earlier post describing the relationship of Free Will Baptist scholars and theologians with the Evangelical Theological Society, we offer the following presentations from the 2015 conference. All of the recordings are available here. Matt Pinson (President of Welch College; Commission Chairman) – “Reformed Arminianism: A Non-Wesleyan Appropriation of the Legacy of Arminius.”” Matthew McAffee …
Keep Readingby Kevin Hester Recently, I have been working with an ad hoc committee for an evangelical organization tasked with considering admission standards. For many years, this organization has espoused a basic Evangelical statement of faith as the basis for membership. Institutions and groups have been asked to sign the statement yearly to indicate continued compliance. But recently, some groups not …
Keep Readingby Jackson Watts Near the end of 2015 I began reading Jonathan Pennington’s excellent book entitled Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction (Baker Academic, 2012). Pennington is a professor of …
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Keep Readingby Kevin Hester I recently read an article in Time magazine that traced the seemingly permanent impasse in the federal government to the election of a number of representatives during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. At a meeting with incoming House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich and Congressman Vin Weber, Bush expressed his greatest fear that they would allow …
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