“Is God’s Love Limited to the Elect? Rebutting a Calvinist Challenge to the Gospel” By Roger E. Olson [source] The doctrine of limited atonement is probably the most hotly debated of the five points of Calvinism among evangelicals. It is also Calvinism’s Achilles’ heel; without it the other points fall. The recent renaissance of Calvinism […]
Chrysostom and New Christians
“INSTRUCTIONS TO CATECHUMENS” JOHN CHRYSOSTOM FIRST INSTRUCTION To those about to be illuminated; and for what reason the laver is said to be of regeneration and not of remission of sins; and that it is a dangerous thing not only to forswear oneself, but also to take an oath, even though we swear truly. 1. […]
Christianity not a Religion
Thomas Hopko (excerpts from Christian Faith and Same-Sex Attraction, 95-98) [The title of the book is very unfortunate because it does not do justice to all that Hopko discusses in the book about Sexuality overall] “Christian Faith is not a “religion” (except in the conventional everyday use of the word). It is the fulfillment of […]
On Freedom
by Dmitri Royster People generally use the word freedom in order to describe two things: the first and perhaps most persistent meaning of the term is simply lack of subjection to any kind of ownership or tyrannical authority, the lack of restriction of one’s actions, the absence of obstacles to self-determination or personal choices, the […]