Free Will Revisited
Author | : Robert E. Picirilli |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2017-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781532618468 |
ISBN-13 | : 1532618468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Whether man has free will continues to be a hot topic among Bible teachers and theologians. After defining the issues involved, from both a worldview and a biblical standpoint, this work devotes three chapters to exploring the single-volume treatments against free will by the great theologians Luther, Calvin, and Edwards. The author then responds to the major issues involved in their objections to free will: foreknowledge and necessity, human depravity and the grace of God, the sovereignty and all-encompassing providence of God, and Edwards's rationalistic argument. In each instance, the doctrine of free will, rightly understood, is in full and biblical accord with these concerns. A concluding chapter summarizes and expresses the bottom-line differences in the doctrine of salvation between the Arminian and the Calvinistic wings of reformed theology.