Across the spectrum: understanding issues in evangelical theology

Physical dimension

Summary / review / table of contents

Introduction –
The inerrancy debate –
Without error of any kind (the inerrantist view) –
Infallible in matters of faith and practice (the infallibilist view) –
The providence debate –
All things happen according to God's sovereign will (the Calvinist view) –
God limits his control by granting freedom (the Arminian view) –
The foreknowledge debate –
God foreknows future free actions (the Arminian view) –
God foreknows by sovereignly ordaining the future (the Calvinist view) –
God foreknows all that shall be and all that may be (the open view) –
The Genesis debate –
Created in the recent past (the young earth view) –
A very old work of art (the day-age view) –
Restoring a destroyed creation (the restoration view) –
Literary theme over literal chronology (the literary framework view) –
The divine image debate –
The image of God is the soul (the substantival view) –
The image of God is our God-given authority (the functional view) –
The image of God is our relationality (the relational view) –
The christology debate –
The unavoidable paradox of the god-man (the classical view) -- Christ relinquished His divine prerogatives (the kenotic view) –
The atonement debate –
Christ died in our place (the penal substitution view) –
Christ destroyed Satan and his works (the Christus Victor view) –
Christ displayed God's wrath against sin (the moral government view) –
The salvation debate -- Tulip (the calvinist view) –
God wants all to be saved (the Arminian view) –
The sanctification debate –
Sanctification as a declaration by God (the Lutheran view) –
Sanctification as holiness in Christ and in personal conduct (the Reformed [Calvinist] view) –
Sanctification as resting-faith in the sufficiency of Christ (the Keswick "deeper life" view) –
Entire sanctification as perfect love (the Wesleyan view) –
The eternal security debate –
Secure in the power of God (the eternal security view) –
The need to persist in faith (the conditional security view) –
The destiny of the unevangelized debate –
No other name (the restrictivist view) –
God does all He can do (the universal opportunity view) –
Hope beyond the grave (the postmortem evangelism view) –
He has not left himself without a witness (the inclusivist view) –
The baptism debate –
Baptism and Christian discipleship (the believer's baptism view) –
Covenanting with the community of God (the infant baptism view) –
The Lord's supper debate –
"This is my body" (the spiritual presence view) –
"In remembrance of me" (the memorial view) –
The charismatic gifts debate –
The gifts are for today (the continuationist view) –
"Tongues shall cease" (the cessationist view) –
The women in ministry debate –
Created equal, with complementary roles (the complementarian view) –
The irrelevance of gender for spiritual authority (the egalitarian view) –
The millennium debate –
The return before the reign (the premillennial view) –
Working toward and waiting for a coming reign of peace (the postmillennial view) –
The symbolic thousand-year conquest of Satan (the amillennial view) –
The hell debate –
The unending torment of the wicked (the classical view) –
The wicked shall be no more (the annihilationist view).

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