by Christopher Talbot (Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final part of a series which are based on the annual Theological Trends seminar at the 2024 National Convention. Read previous installments on the Commission website.) The Confused Culture We certainly live in a time in which ethical concerns about the human body are prevalent. Books like Nancy Pearcey’s Love …
Keep Readingby 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 subject. Cooper rightly notes, “if anthropological dualism [the view alluded to above] …
Keep Readingby 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. I am not a biblical scholar, so I am depending heavily on …
Keep Readingby 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 thank Mr. Talbot for allowing us to share his remarks here. Any …
Keep ReadingMatt 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 length than I will do here. [1] My purpose in this essay …
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