Perseverance of the Saints: Dort, Westminster, Warnings
Perseverance of the Saints: Dort, Westminster, Warnings The perseverance of the saints is the Reformed doctrine, the fifth of the five points summarized as TULIP, that…
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Articles in Christian philosophy
Christian philosophy, worked out in public.
Two tracks. The philosophy pieces take one dilemma at a time and index the term that generates it — argument rather than survey. The church pieces are for pastors with a growth problem and no patience for abstraction. Both are free, and both are complete in themselves.
Calvinism vs Arminianism: The Differences, Side by Side
Calvinism vs Arminianism: The Differences, Side by Side Calvinism vs Arminianism is the Protestant debate over how God saves sinners: Calvinism holds that God's eternal choice…
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Penal Substitution: Its Case, Critics, and Divine Wrath
Penal Substitution: Its Case, Critics, and Divine Wrath Penal substitution is the doctrine that Christ, in His death on the cross, bore the penalty due to…
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Calvinism: History, Branches, Critics and an Alternative
Calvinism: History, Branches, Critics and an Alternative Calvinism is the Reformed Protestant system of theology that descends from John Calvin (1509–1564) and the Swiss Reformation, and…
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Nominalism: Universals, Ockham, and the Realist Reply
Nominalism: Universals, Ockham, and the Realist Reply Nominalism is the philosophical view that universals, such as redness or humanity, do not exist as real things, so…
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Can You Lose Your Salvation? Once Saved, Always Saved?
Can You Lose Your Salvation? Once Saved, Always Saved? Whether you can lose your salvation depends on which Christian tradition you ask, and each of the…
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Prevenient Grace: What It Is and Why Calvinists Object
Prevenient Grace: What It Is and Why Calvinists Object Prevenient grace is the grace of God that goes before a person's conversion, awakening and enabling a…
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Kenoticism and Kenosis: What Christ Emptied Himself Of
Kenoticism and Kenosis: What Christ Emptied Himself Of Kenoticism is the family of Christologies holding that in the Incarnation the Son of God emptied Himself of…
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Open Theism: What It Gets Right and Where It Overreaches
Open Theism: What It Gets Right and Where It Overreaches Open theism is the view that God knows everything that can be known, but that the…
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Total Depravity: Meaning, Scripture, and the Ability Debate
Total Depravity: Meaning, Scripture, and the Ability Debate Total depravity is the Reformed doctrine, the T in TULIP, that sin has corrupted every part of the…
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What Is Calvinism? Beliefs, Meaning, and Objections
What Is Calvinism? Beliefs, Meaning, and Objections Calvinism is the Protestant tradition, also called Reformed theology, which teaches that God is sovereign over all things and…
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The Sovereignty of God: What It Means in Each View
The Sovereignty of God: What It Means in Each View The sovereignty of God is His rightful rule over everything He has made: the authority to…
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