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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Arminianism"”.
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
… later Stuart and early Hanoverian conforming Arminianism cannot be seen as a monolithically antipodean reaction to Reformed theology without obscuring the negative consensus that united Reformed and Arminian against the alleged heterodoxy of the Remonstrants and those who propounded their …
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890
<p>The concept of "the will" dominated American moral psychology for nearly three centuries. To possess a will was, among other things, to be made in the image of God and to have moral responsibility. College textbooks, as tools of moral inculcation, conveyed this moral psychology from the …
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Odd Fellows: The Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… <p>This study looked at the intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F. F. Bruce, and found that both scholars were evangelicals, committed to the Protestant gospel of justification by faith alone. In this sense, both shared an evangelical affinity that …
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Odd Fellows: the Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the Writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… <p>This study looked at the intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F. F. Bruce, and found that both scholars were evangelicals, committed to the Protestant gospel of justification by faith alone. In this sense, both shared an evangelical affinity that …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… soteriology of Owen in his polemics against Arminianism. Examining the views of Arminius was necessary to understand Owen’s positional anti-Arminian stance regarding predestination. Though Arminius was anti-Catholic, Reformed theologians considered Arminius a threat. For Owen, Arminianism was …
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Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration
… Chapter 5 shows that there is diversity within Arminianism, so that there are those who hold to a "classical Arminian" view and there are those who hold to a Semi-Pelagian view. However, chapter 5 demonstrates that both views end up in the same place, namely, affirming the doctrine of synergism …
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Self and Other in the theology of Robert Barclay
… against self-reductive orthodox Calvinism and Arminianism, (2): Peculiarity of Liberal Quakerism and their historiography endorsed by an unexamined premise of self-affirmation, and the re-estimation of Barclay from that viewpoint, (3): Liberals’ self-centred orientation in pacifism in their …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… three evangelical models, namely, Open theism, Arminianism, and Calvinism in terms of how these models of divine sovereignty function to comfort suffering Christians. Central to this evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords Christians in trusting God to …
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Clark H. Pinnock's Shift in His Doctrine of Biblical Authority and Reliability, an Analysis and Critique
… is probably the consequence of a Calvinism to Arminianism paradigm shift which began with his soteriology, moved to his doctrine of God, and filtered into his view of Scripture. He may need to make adjustments to his system to maintain a high view of biblical authority and reliability.</p>
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The Contest Between the ‘Great Red Dragon of Coleman-Street’ and the ‘Over-Orthodox Doctor’ of Oxford Concerning the Doctrine of Perseverance, or John Goodwin’s Redemption Redeemed (1651) and John Owen’s The Doctrine of The Saints’ Perseverance (1654)
… biographers to have converted from Calvinism to Arminianism, in a matter of months, in the year 1647. Thereafter Goodwin went on to write several Arminian works, including Redemption Redeemed in 1651. In this dissertation it is argued that his conversion was neither as rapid nor radical as has …
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The Salvation of the Unevangelized: A Comparative Analysis of the views of Clark H. Pinnock and Millard J. Erickson
… results. Pinnock moved from Calvinism to Arminianism, and in the process shifted from exclusivism to inclusivism. Erickson remained a Calvinist and a soteriological agnostic, but revised his position, which brought it closer to general revelation inclusivism. Throughout his career, …
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John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716): A reassessment of his location within the later Stuart Church of England
This study focuses on John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) and the broader Reformed tradition within the later Stuart Church of England. Its central thesis is that, contrary to the claims of older scholarship, Edwards was not a marginalized figure in the Church of England on account of his …
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Theological Essentialism at the Enlightenment: The Doctrine of Fundamental Articles of the Faith in Daniel Waterland (1683-1740)
This doctoral thesis represents the first full length historical and comparative analysis of both the contextual catalysts and the originality of the theologically essentialist writings by Church of England theologian Daniel Waterland (1683-1740). Overviewing the most relevant contemporary …