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Title: Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom by David Basinger, Randall Basinger ISBN: 0-87784-567-0 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: All sides presented in a clear format.
Comment: This book's method of delivery has to be the best way to explore such difficult issues. Although the reader will disagree with one or more of the contributors of the book, regardless of their position, a clear understanding of just how much can be discovered through other's point of view will be obtained.
This book will further develop your own position on the issue, and give you "something to chew on."
Rating: 3
Summary: Too Philosophical and not that Exegetical
Comment: Though I would tend to agree with Dr. Feinberg's view of divine sovereignty and human responsibility, the overall volume was written in too much of a philosophical fashion. The book reads like a university or college philosophy text, rather than a theological treatise. The authors write like philosophers and not like theologians (though Feinberg, Geisler, and Pinnock are theologians). Feinberg advocates the "mild" Calvinist perspective; Geisler advocates the traditional Arminian perspective; Reichenbach advocates a view where God limits His power for the allowance of human freedom; and Pinnock advocates the position where God does not know the future. All but Pinnock's essay are fairly well-written. Pinnock tends to get too emotional and basis his beliefs on human sentimentalities. Overall, though, a good place to start in understanding four views of divine sovereignty and human freedom in Christianity.
Rating: 2
Summary: Missing the predominate Calvinist view
Comment: Generally speaking, these "four views" book are a very good resource the Christian struggling over controversial issues. However, this book falls short of truly presenting the possible options.
The problem is, the person presenting the Calvinism view is writing from a "high-Calvinism" or "supralapsarian" viewpoint. This was the viewpoint of John Calvin. And the main idea in this view is that before ("supra") the Fall ("lapse"), to glorify Himself, God decided to create humanity so that He could save some of them while damning others. The saved would then glorify God for their salvation when seeing the plight of the damned.
However, this viewpoint is NOT the viewpoint that most Calvinists subscribe to, nor is it the position of the Westminster Confession. The view of most Calvinists and the Confession is "low-Calvinism" or "sublapsarianism."
In this view, to glorify Himself and to extend His love, God created humanity. Then, AFTER ("sub") the Fall, God looked down the corridors of time and decided that out of the mass of sinful humanity He would, by His grace, save some while rightly damning the others for their sin. So this view does not have God creating people in order to damn them as the high-Calvinist view does. There are also other important differences between these two views.
Now in this book most of the arguments the non-Calvinists present against the Calvinist are actually directed towards the areas of Calvinism in which high-Calvinists and low-Calvinists disagree. IOW, the anti-Calvinists arguments would not apply to the version of Calvinism that most Calvinists subscribe to.
So when reading this book, one would not learn what the majority Calvinist viewpoint entails or proposed arguments against it. But my book "Scripture Workbook: For Personal Bible Study and Teaching the Bible" does present this majority view in three chapters on God's Sovereignty and the five points of Calvinism. And these chapters include hundreds of Scripture verses upholding the low-Calvinist viewpoint while refuting proposed arguments against it.
Given this omission of the predominate Calvinist view, I wouldn't particularly recommend "Predestination and Free Will." But if one does get it, then also get a book like mine that presents the low-Calvinist position.
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Title: Divine Foreknowledge: 4 Views by James K. Beilby, Paul R. Eddy, Gregory A. Boyd, David Hunt, William Lane Craig, Paul Helm ISBN: 0830826521 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Four Views on Eternal Security by J. Matthew Pinson, Stanley N. Gundry ISBN: 0310234395 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Grace of God and the Will of Man by Clark H. Pinnock ISBN: 1556616910 Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Chosen but Free: A Balanced View of Divine Election by Norman Geisler ISBN: 0764225219 Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God by Gregory A. Boyd ISBN: 080106290X Publisher: Baker Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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