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Title: Grace Unlimited by Clark H. Pinnock ISBN: 1-57910-237-9 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Sloppy Scholarship
Comment: Pinnock's book is impressive because of the academic reputation of the authors (see pp. 9,10), and because of their style and sincerity. These can win acceptance for any work among those who have no other basis for judging, and that it is perhaps the case here.
David J. A. Clines, a lecturer in the University of Sheffield, England, has written chapter six of the book, which deals with Predestination in the Old Testament. Clines warns at the outset that "we may not have the correct focus, "and that we must "look at the biblical teaching as a whole." The problem is that Clines does not follow his own advice. He begins with Abraham instead of Gen. 1:1, returning to Genesis only late in the chapter. Then he skips to Proverbs, and proceeds to skip from Exodus to Psalms! He has nothing, or almost nothing, on Job or Psalms, nor on Exodus to Ruth, nor on Ezekiel, even though these omitted portions of the OT contain much that flatly contradicts Pinnock's thesis for the book.
Other severe errors:
On page 263 Clines says that the Stoics shared an "atomistic-deterministic worldview." But the truth is that the Stoics were not atomists.
Page 200 says that "'L'homme' [by Descartes] was the first physiological model of man in modern times." Nope. Descartes was not a mechanist, as he held that "the volition of the soul could violate physical law..." [See Gordon Clark's Predestination, p. 153, note 1]
Clines implies on page 207 in note 10 that Democritean physics and classical physics are the same thing. Not so, as Democritean physics was not accepted by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and even the Epicureans.
Two other authors make similarly glaring errors when they should know better. On pages 182 and 200, in reference to Eph 2:8, it is claimed that the neuter demonstrative pronoun cannot refer to faith because faith is feminine. Not true. Feminine abstract nouns frequently take the neuter in these constructions.
Any book attacking predestination is going to be popular, even when set forth with sloppy scholarship, because most people just don't like the idea of predestination, period.
A better resource for those who actually DO want to follow Cline's advice about examining "the biblical teaching as a whole," might be Gordon Clark's Predestination [The Combined edition of Biblical Predestination and Predestination in the Old Testament.] It is two books in one, and its superb scholarship make it more of an intellectual bargain than Grace Unlimited. Clark was a prodigious theologian and philosopher who wrote more than thirty books and for sixty years taught in a half dozen collges and seminaries. He has been called "one of the major thinkers of our [20th] century."
Rating: 5
Summary: Scholarly articles on the Arminian side of salvation.
Comment: This is a good book. Clark Pinnock has changed his views dramatically since editiing this book. I believe the 'openess' view of God is completely wrong headed BUT this book has none of that. The one reviewer who gave the book a bad review obviously has not read it. This book espouses God's Sovereignty and His Grace in salvation. If you are struggling with the free will - Calvinist issue this is a good book to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: No "Openness" Here!
Comment: I thoroughly question if the reviewer below has even read this book. He fulminates about "Opennes (sic)Theology and Its Lies," but there is just one problem. "Grace Unlimited" does not espouse or even mention openness theology! The original published version of this book was written in 1975, before Clark Pinnock, the editor, even advocated such a perspective.
"Grace Unlimited" is a collection of articles by nothing but mainstream Arminian theologians. Their writings are well researched and thought-provoking in defense of subjects including free will, Christ dying for humanity, and God's desire that all people accept the gospel message. This is a challenging book against Calvinism.
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Title: The Grace of God and the Will of Man by Clark H. Pinnock ISBN: 1556616910 Publisher: Bethany House Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Created in God's Image by Anthony A. Hoekema ISBN: 0802808506 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Scripture and Truth by John D. Woodbridge, D. A. Carson ISBN: 0801025702 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Apostolic Preaching of the Cross by Leon Morris ISBN: 080281512X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 1984 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Cross and Salvation: Foundations of Evangelical Theology: The Doctrine of Salvation by Bruce A. Demarest ISBN: 0891079378 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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