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Dr. Bruce Ware on four views regarding the providence of god

eutychus — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:14:45 +0000

I count it a privilege to have studied systematic theology under Bruce Ware at Southern Seminary. At Mars Hill Church in 2007, Ware gave three talks on the subject of the providence of God. (HT: Justin Taylor). The first talk discusses two views, those of Process Theism and Open Theism, the second that of Arminianism, and the third the view of Reformed Theology (or Calvinism).

Session 1: Uncertain Hands of God and Men: Providence in Process Thought and Open Theism – Bruce Ware

Session 2: Independent Hands of God and Men: Providence in Classic Arminianism – Bruce Ware

Session 3: Coordinated Hands of God and Men: Providence in the Reformed Tradition – Bruce Ware

Doxoblogy: TULIP For Dummies

eutychus — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:26:00 +0000

I liked this. It was simple: Doxoblogy: TULIP For Dummies

Hey, who is he calling a dummy?

Things I wish I had known before becoming a Calvinist

eutychus — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:25:00 +0000

There are things you should know before becoming a Calvinist (hat tip: Rick Ritchie): The Mechanical Contrivium: Trivia about Calvinism

Divine Sovereignty and Human Repsonsibility

eutychus — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:48:00 +0000

Michael Haykin has a wonderful post “Puritan Balance About Coming to Christ” in which he shares an insight from John Flavel on how God accomplishes his salvific will without obliterating man’s personality:

Coming to Christ shows the voluntariness of the soul in its motion to Christ. True, there is no coming without the Father’s drawing; but that drawing has nothing of compulsion in it; it does not destroy, but powerfully and with an overcoming sweetness persuades the will. It is not forced or driven, but it comes; being made willing in the day of God’s power. Psalm 110:3. [The Method of Grace (New York: American Tract Society, n.d.), 201].

This makes me want to read Flavel for myself. Which, I am sure, is exactly what Haykin intends.