An early caution against heresy can be found in our Lord's warning to his disciples: "Take heed, beware the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of the Sadducees" (Matt. 16:6). The disciples were confused and thought Jesus was rebuking them because they had brought no bread. He had to explain to them that he […]
I must confess that when I first saw the initials "W. W. J. D.", I thought they referred to a country music radio station. I was quite surprised to discover not only that they really stood for "What would Jesus do?" but also that these initials were fast becoming a kind of cultic item in […]
Shortly after the Reformation began, in the first few years after Martin Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses on the church door at Wittenberg, he issued some short booklets on a variety of subjects. One of the most provocative was titled The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. In this book Luther was looking back to that […]
One of the conditions that we hear, a necessary condition for justification is faith. Right? And faith involves an active embracing, and trusting in Christ-and in Christ alone. In that sense it involves some action of the will. It involves some step of embracing Christ. Now we're not saying-Luther isn't saying, Augustine isn't saying-that the […]
Several provocatively titled books published by evangelical houses in recent years advance the position frequently called "open theism." Huntington College professor John Sanders has written The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence (InterVarsity Press, 1998), Baptist pastor and Bethel College professor Gregory Boyd has written a book titled God of the Possible: A Biblical […]
The impact of modernity on religion is commonly seen in terms of the process of secularization, which can be described simply as one in which religion loses its hold on the level both of institutions and of human consciousness. This is not the place to review the by-now immense literature on the causes, character, and […]
MR: Summarize for our readers your own movement from liberalism to evangelical Christianity.TO: Once blown by every wind of doctrine and preoccupied with therapeutic fads and the ethos of hypertoleration, I came by grace to grasp the distinctive theological method of orthodoxy. I became fascinated with the hermeneutics of orthodoxy, the dynamics of apostolic tradition […]
This book is a sequel to R. C. Sproul's Faith Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine of Justification (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995), which examined and critiqued the 1994 document entitled Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium. Getting the Gospel Right has three parts. The first two chapters document the recent dialogue […]
Those who worried about Charles Colson's diplomacy with Catholics in "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" can at least appreciate the cultural outline and apologetical aid he and Nancy Pearcey here offer. For they have written a book that is clearly influenced by the Reformed tradition of Abraham Kuyper, which is both its strength and its weakness. […]
This is an abridged edition of Schreiner and Ware's The Grace of God, the Bondage of the Will (Baker Books, 1995). That earlier work was in some sense a response to two books edited by Clark Pinnock, Grace Unlimited (Minneapolis: Bethany, 1975) and The Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Arminianism […]
