The Bible and the Body (Part 3)
by Christopher Talbot (Editor’s Note: This is part 3 in a four-part series based on Chris Talbot’s 2024 Theological Integrity seminar at the National Convention. You can click on the hyperlinks to read Part 1 or Part 2). The Body I intentionally began with Scripture’s testimony on the…
The Bible and the Body (Part 2)
by Christopher Talbot (Note: This is the second in a four-part series from our annual Convention seminar. Read Part 1 here.) As various proof texts offer insight into a larger biblical vision of the constitution of man, so is an understanding of various words used in the Bible.…
The Bible and the Body: Theological Clarity in a Confused Culture
by Christopher Talbot (Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a four-part series which reproduces Chris Talbot’s seminar from the 2024 Free Will Baptist National Convention. We are posting it in this “episode-like” format since the length of the talk is more conducive to this approach. We…
What I Like (and Don’t Like) about Non-Penal-Satisfaction Theories of Atonement
Matt Pinson Reformed Arminians emphasize what Leroy Forlines called the penal-satisfaction model of atonement. (Forlines, with scholars like Charles Hodge, J. I. Packer, and Thomas Oden, liked this more precise phrase that refers to what most people call penal-substitutionary atonement.) I have discussed this approach elsewhere at greater…
On Creatureliness
W. Jackson Watts Over the last 15-20 years I’ve spent an extensive amount of time reading, thinking, and occasionally writing about the interrelated themes of creation, culture, and creatureliness. Some of my interest in these was no doubt always latent, given that I was raised in a rural,…