Check out this interview with Dr. George Hunsinger (Princeton Theological Seminary prof). I think you’ll find it interesting, he discusses the theology of people like Calvin, Barth and Torrance. He gets into a brief sketch on election, which will help elucidate how Evangelical Calvinists approach this. And he makes a helpful distinction between the impact that Augustine has had upon the “Calvinist” position versus the impact and deciding voice and approach that Athanasius represented for both Barth, Torrance and Evangelical Calvinism (as appropriated by some of the Scottish Tradition). A great clip, click here: Interview with George Hunsinger.
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A very interesting presentation Bobby.
I am always excited to have confirmed that the early church was committed to the Gospel much as we understand it,and committed their convictions in writing (Thanks Athenasius!)
I was thankful to have my question answered why TFT was interested in the Greek church. I also was interested as he described the “hopefulness” that Barth felt that salvation would finally be universal. I don’t know if I would go quite that far, but I believe many will have made death bed confessions that only God hears. I have a book about mentally impaired people and their relationship with God. It describes people who were apparently comatose recovering from that state describing how they came to believe Christ in that state. I hope that many will receive Him between their last breath and the last moment when their spirit leaves their body.
Third, I backtracked to the source of the interview, Grace Communion International, a very small denomination. They have a solid doctrinal statement, the “Christ died for all” is right there, with an explicit distinction between those who in the end believe, and those whose reject Christ.
Here’s the shock (for me at least): This denomination is the once “World Wide Church of God” of Herbert W. Armstrong. He was 7th day, non-trinitarian, with many other cultic doctrines and practices. They produced “The Plain Truth” magazine. When their founder Herbert W. Armstrong died in 1986, they began very slowly to reject his abarent teachings. I had heard that they had repented, but their doctrine sounds stronger than most mainline and conservative churches today. The info is at gci.org.
Incredible that a self-confessed cult was so completely redeemed. Praise God!
Yeah, I’m not on board with universalism either; but the logic does not necessarily lead there, TFT didn’t go there.
It is amazing to see part of the WWCG “saved” and mightily so. Armstrongism was definitely a cult, and Walter Martin was right to put them in his book “Kingdom of the Cults,” years ago now. There are still some hold outs in the old ranks, as I understand it; but this is an amazing turn around indeed.
Incredible that a self-confessed cult was so completely redeemed. Praise God!
His Truth ALWAYS prevails!
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Amen!
Are you a postmillenialist, Heather π ?