Salvation, Human Destiny, Election, Volition, Faith, Grace, Perseverence, Security

AMYRALDUS, Moses (AMYRAUT, Moïse) (1596-1664)

*__________.  Traité de la predestination.

ARMINIUS, Jacob (HARMONSON, James) (1559-1609)

ARMSTRONG, Brian G. (1936-2011)

***__________.  Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in Seventeenth-Century France.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.  {xx, 330p.}

BANGS, Carl (1922-)

***__________.  Arminius: A Study in the Dutch Reformation.  Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998.  {388p.}

BERCOT, David W. (1950-)

****__________.  What the Early Christians Believed about Eternal Security.  Ibid.  70 min. CD.

****__________.  What the Early Christians Believed about Predestination and Free Will.  Ibid.  60 min. CD.

****__________.  What the Early Christians Believed about Salvation.  Ibid.  70 min. CD.

****__________.  “What They Believed About Salvation”; “What They Believed About Predestination and Freewill”; “What Baptism Meant to the Early Christians”; chaps. 6-8 in Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up:  A New Look at Today’s Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity, pp. 56-82.  Third edition.  Tyler, TX: Scroll Publishing, 1999 [1989].  {27p.}

BOLSEC, Hieronymus Hermes (-c. 1584)

CAMERON, John (c. 1579-1625)

CASTELLIO, Sebastian (1515-63)

__________.  Contra libellum Calvini [Against Calvin’s Book].  Rotterdam (?), 1612 (original manuscript, Basle, 1554).  {}

__________.  Dialogi de praedestinatione, de electione, de libero arbitrio, de fide.  Basel, 1578, 1613, 1619.  (English translation, 1679.)  {}

COFFEY, John (1969-)

****__________.  John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in 17^th-Century England.  Suffolk, UK/New York, NY: The Boydell Press, 2006.  {x, 337p.}

CURCELLAEUS, Stephanus (1586-1659)

EPISCOPIUS, Simon (1583-1643)

ERSKINE of Linlathen, Thomas (1788-1870)

__________.  The Doctrine of Election.  1837.  {}  (?)

GOODWIN, John (1594-1665)

***__________.  Redemption Redeemed: Wherein the Most Glorious Work of the Redemption of the World by Jesus Christ, Is Vindicated against the Encroachments of Later Times: With a Thorough Discussion of the Great Questions Concerning Election, Reprobation, and the Perseverance of the Saints.  London: Printed by John Macock, for Lodowick Lloyd and Henry Crippe, 1651.  {xx, 740p.}  Reprinted, London: Printed for Thomas Tegg, Cheapside, 1840.

JACKSON, Thomas (1783-1873-)

***__________.  The Life of John Goodwin, Sometime Fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge, and Vicar of St. Stephen’s Coleman Street, London, in the Seventeenth Century: Comprising an Account of the Controversies in Which He Was Engaged in Defence of Universal Toleration in Matters of Religion, and of the Universal Redemption of Mankind by the Death of Christ: With a Review of Several Public Transactions in Great Britain, during the Civil Wars and the Commonwealth.  Second editon, greatly improved.  London: Longmans Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1872.  {xvi, 450p.}

LIMBORCH, Philipp van (1633-1712)

MOZLEY, J[ames]. B[owling]. (1813-78)

**__________.  The Augustinian Doctrine of Predestination.  pp. 369-72.  [“Doct. of satisfaction cannot be held as a truth of reason or made intelligible to the reason or sense of justice.”  G. C. Foley]

MULLER, Richard A[lfred]. (1948-)

__________.  “Attributes Relating to the Manifestation and Exercise of the Divine Will.”  Chapter 6 in Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: The Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, ca. 1520 to 1725.  Volume 3, The Divine Essence and Attributes, pp. 486-589.  Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.  {104p.}

NAGASAWA, Mako A. (1972-)

***__________.  “Big Questions About God: Contrasting the Earliest Christian Theology with High Federal Calvinist Theology & Why It Matters.”  Revision 2.2.  [Boston]: New Humanity Institute, April 2014.  {[28]p.}  Online:

*__________.  “God’s Will and Human Free Choice.”  [Boston]: New Humanity Institute, last modified November 24, 2015.  {[c. 9]p.}  Online:

*__________.  “Human Free Will and God’s Grace in the Early Church Fathers.”  [Boston]: New Humanity Institute, last modified July 5, 2016.  {[c. 14]p.}  Online:

*__________.  “Suffering and the Sovereignty of God’s Word: Exploring God’s Will and Human Free Choice.”  [Boston]: New Humanity Institute, last modified September 2, 2017.  {[c. 9]p.}  Online:

*__________.  “Does God Value Every Person?  Does He Anchor Universal Human Dignity?  [Boston]: New Humanity Institute, posted

PROVAN, Charles D. (1955-2007)

****__________.  The Church Is Israel Now: The Transfer of Conditional Privilege.  Old and New Testament Scripture Texts Which Illustrate the Conditional Privileged Position and Titles of “Racial Israel” and Their Transfer to the Christian Church, Arranged with Comments by Charles D. Provan.  Vallecito, CA: Ross House Books, 1987.  {[x], 74p.}

SHANK, Robert (1918-2006)

***__________.  Elect in the Son: A Study of the Doctrine of Election.  Introduction by William W. Adams.  Springfield, MO: Westcott Publishers, 1970.  {242p.}

***__________.  Life in the Son: A Study of the Doctrine of Perseverance.  Second edition.  Introduction by William W. Adams.  Springfield, MO: Westcott Publishers, 1961 (1960).  {xx, 380p.}

SPYKMAN, Gordon J[ohn]. (1926-93)

***__________.  “A New Look at Election and Reprobation,” in Life Is Religion: Essays in Honor of H. Evan Runner, pp. 171-191.  Edited by Henry Vander Goot.  St. Catherines, ON: Paideia Press, 1981.  {21p.}

VANCE, Laurence M. (-)

*__________.  The Other Side of Calvinism.  Revised Edition.  Orlando, FL: Vance Publications, 2014 [1991, 1999].  {xii, 788p.}  [An extraordinary exhibit of how a most learned and thorough critic of Calvinistic soteriology, in its five sprawling branches, can yet enthusiastically defend the very root of the entire erroneous system, penal substitution, without seeing the inextricable connection between them (see pp. 414-432). ]

ZWEIG, Stefan (1881-1942)

**__________.  The Right to Heresy: Castellio against Calvin.  Translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul.  The Beacon Press / The Viking Press, 1951 (1936).  {238p.}  (Reprint.  [Lindale, TX]: www.OpenAirOutreach.com.)  (Original German edition, Vienna: Herbert Reichner Verlag, 1936.)

77 Questions about the Atonement (Q&A #64)

64.     Doesn’t God predestine some people to be saved and others to be lost?

Good heavens, no!  God desires everyone to change their minds about Him and start trusting His Son Jesus.  He destines that all who acquiesce in faith and keep trusting the abundant testimonies and proofs He furnishes in Scripture and personal experience will happily end up as adopted sons and daughters, hence heirs of allotments in His impending Kingdom.  That’s His intended destiny for all who keep believing; that’s where the train’s goin’.  If anyone decides to pry open a safety door and jump from the train of God’s amazing deeds rumbling down the track toward His Kingdom, coupled to the thundering locomotive of His superabundant graciousness, fueled by the Holy Spirit’s inspired testimonies to the Cross-Resurrection-Pentecost events, it’s most certainly not God’s intention.  For in that sorrowful case a tragic destiny does regrettably commence activation and is to be avoided strenuously at all costs!  Why should we defect when God is offering free passage, all expenses paid?  We’re just along for the ride…if we care to stay instead of falling out.  God’s proposal in His resurrected Son Jesus Christ to our otherwise doomed species is just too good to be false!  This accounts for the apostle Paul’s urgently sensible plea to the whole human race:  “For Christ’s sake be conciliated to God!”