Symposium: Call for Papers

The 2024 Theological Symposium will convene on October 7-8 on the campus of Welch College in Gallatin, Tennessee. Paper proposals or abstracts can be sent to Symposium coordinator, Cory Thompson, at fwbtheology@gmail.com. Submissions should be made no later than June 1. Papers on various topics will be considered, but…

Matthew Barrett’s Forlines Lecture Series

Kevin Hester The Forlines Lecture Series at Welch College is named for long-time faculty member, dean, and Free Will Baptist theologian F. Leroy Forlines. It began in 1993 as a means of drawing leading scholars to campus to speak on emerging theological and cultural issues of the day.…

What Were the Reformers Doing?

W. Jackson Watts A Brief Comment on Matthew Barrett’s The Reformation as Renewal Matthew Barrett is a name worth knowing. Barrett is a theology professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He’s perhaps the most prolific younger theologian in the Baptist orbit these days. His Amazon page is rather…

“Communion with God”

Matt Pinson In our tradition, the phrase “communion with God” is very common, as it is in the wider Puritan and Reformed tradition out of which General/Free Will Baptists emerged. Our English General Baptist forefather Thomas Grantham was very fond of the term. In one place, for example,…

How the Little Lord Jesus Asleep on the Hay Accomplishes Salvation: Understanding the Work of Christ in His Infancy           

Cory Thompson (Editor Note: In this special year-end article, Cory Thompson connects some important biblical doctrines to the birth of Christ. We hope it fuels clearer thinking about this part of Scripture in the future!) The narratives surrounding the Christmas event are rarely read with Jesus in his…
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