Across the spectrum : understanding issues in evangelical theology 2nd ed.

Author

• Boyd, Gregory A.

Additional Author(s)

• Eddy, And Paul R.

Publisher

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2009

Language

English

ISBN

9780801037931

Series

Subject(s)

• EVANGELICALISM
• THEOLOGY, DOCTRINAL

Notes

• Glossary: p. 341

. Bibliography: p. 325-326 . Index: p. 343-351

Abstract

This new edition of a popular text presents an accessible yet comprehensive primer that helps readers understand the breadth of viewpoints on major issues in evangelical theology, with chapters using the popular three- or four-views book format. The authors carefully examine positions taken by evangelical scholars on seventeen seminal issues. They lay out the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for each position in point-counterpoint fashion and discuss possible objections. The second edition retains the helpful features of the first edition-end-of-chapter "For Further Reading" sections and an extensive glossary-and adds an appendix that addresses thirteen peripheral issues in contemporary evangelicalism.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

351 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Introduction –
The inerrancy debate –
Without error of any kind (the inerrantist view) –
Infallible in matters of faith and practice (the infallibilist view) –
The providence debate –
All things happen according to God's sovereign will (the Calvinist view) –
God limits his control by granting freedom (the Arminian view) –
The foreknowledge debate –
God foreknows future free actions (the Arminian view) –
God foreknows by sovereignly ordaining the future (the Calvinist view) –
God foreknows all that shall be and all that may be (the open view) –
The Genesis debate –
Created in the recent past (the young earth view) –
A very old work of art (the day-age view) –
Restoring a destroyed creation (the restoration view) –
Literary theme over literal chronology (the literary framework view) –
The divine image debate –
The image of God is the soul (the substantival view) –
The image of God is our God-given authority (the functional view) –
The image of God is our relationality (the relational view) –
The christology debate –
The unavoidable paradox of the god-man (the classical view) -- Christ relinquished His divine prerogatives (the kenotic view) –
The atonement debate –
Christ died in our place (the penal substitution view) –
Christ destroyed Satan and his works (the Christus Victor view) –
Christ displayed God's wrath against sin (the moral government view) –
The salvation debate -- Tulip (the calvinist view) –
God wants all to be saved (the Arminian view) –
The sanctification debate –
Sanctification as a declaration by God (the Lutheran view) –
Sanctification as holiness in Christ and in personal conduct (the Reformed [Calvinist] view) –
Sanctification as resting-faith in the sufficiency of Christ (the Keswick "deeper life" view) –
Entire sanctification as perfect love (the Wesleyan view) –
The eternal security debate –
Secure in the power of God (the eternal security view) –
The need to persist in faith (the conditional security view) –
The destiny of the unevangelized debate –
No other name (the restrictivist view) –
God does all He can do (the universal opportunity view) –
Hope beyond the grave (the postmortem evangelism view) –
He has not left himself without a witness (the inclusivist view) –
The baptism debate –
Baptism and Christian discipleship (the believer's baptism view) –
Covenanting with the community of God (the infant baptism view) –
The Lord's supper debate –
"This is my body" (the spiritual presence view) –
"In remembrance of me" (the memorial view) –
The charismatic gifts debate –
The gifts are for today (the continuationist view) –
"Tongues shall cease" (the cessationist view) –
The women in ministry debate –
Created equal, with complementary roles (the complementarian view) –
The irrelevance of gender for spiritual authority (the egalitarian view) –
The millennium debate –
The return before the reign (the premillennial view) –
Working toward and waiting for a coming reign of peace (the postmillennial view) –
The symbolic thousand-year conquest of Satan (the amillennial view) –
The hell debate –
The unending torment of the wicked (the classical view) –
The wicked shall be no more (the annihilationist view).

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