Thomas Grantham: An Influence on Wesley’s View of Predestination
by Matthew Pinson (This post first appeared on Dr. Pinson’s blog at matthewpinson.com) Recently a friend and former student, Jesse Owens (now a Ph.D. student in historical theology at Southern Seminary) told me about a statement Herbert McGonigle had made about Wesley “raising the ghosts” of John Goodwin…
New Work by Robert Picirilli
by Theological Commission Robert Picirilli is a man who needs little introduction to the Free Will Baptist movement. He is our most significant biblical scholar, and one of the two most influential theologians we have produced in the modern period of our movement. We are especially blessed to have such a…
Daniel Whitby on the Warning Passages in Hebrews
by J. Matthew Pinson Recently I was reading an old book from Daniel Whitby entitled A Discourse Concerning the True Import of the Words Election and Reprobation (1710). Whitby was a well-known Anglican Arminian in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. His works are (in)famous for eliciting…
A Problem in Calvinism’s Order of Salvation
by J. Matthew Pinson In Calvinism, Regeneration comes before faith, whereas in Arminianism regeneration comes after faith. In other words, the “timing” of what Scripture describes as the “new birth” is decisive in the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism. In Calvinism, God gives His elect a new birth.…