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.
- | Author: Robert E. Picirilli
- | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- | Publication Date: May 31, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 152 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
- | ISBN-10: 1498244041
- | ISBN-13: 9781498244046
