Across the spectrum : understanding issues in evangelical theology / Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy. [print]

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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