Journal of the GES – Autumn 1989
So Great Salvation
So Great Salvation. By Charles C. Ryrie. Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1989. 166 pp. Cloth, $12.95. If this book had been written only several years ago, it would be hard to imagine a debate over the conditions of salvation such as there is today. For many years Dr. Ryrie has caught the brunt of the
Absolutely Free! A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation
Absolutely Free! A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation. By Zane C. Hodges. Dallas and Grand Rapids: Redención Viva and Zondervan Publishing House, 1989. 238 pp. Cloth, $14.95. If salvation is an important subject to Christians (and it is!), this is a very important book. Zondervan was wise to publish both sides of the current controversy
Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments
Continuity and Discontinuity: Perspectives on the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments. John S. Feinberg ed., Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1988. 410 pp. Paper, $17.50. Although escaping the notice of some, it is widely acknowledged that dispensational theology has undergone progressive stages of development in the last century (see, for example, Craig A. Blaising,
Loneliness
Loneliness. By Elisabeth Elliot. Nashville: Oliver-Nelson, A Division of Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988. 158 pp. Cloth, $12.95. When a person reads a number of books by the same author, even if they are works of fiction, such as the mysteries of Agatha Christie or the novels of Georgette Heyer, to a certain extent one gets
Temptation
Temptation. By Charles Stanley. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988. 192 pp. Cloth, $12.95. In this book the well-known pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta gives the Christian community helpful teaching on the subject of temptation. He writes in a positive tone, assuring believers of their ability through Christ to resist temptation. At the same time,
All About Repentance
All About Repentance. By Richard A. Seymour. Kissimmee, FL: Clarity, 1974. 180 pp. Paper, $3.50. Few points of contention in modern Gospel debates have generated more interest lately than the definition of repentance. Because of recent publications holding views opposing the “change of mind” position, this 1974 book (originally published by Harvest House Publishers, Hollywood,
The New Nature
The New Nature. By Renald Showers. Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1986. 182 pp. Hardcover, $12.95. My first introduction to Renald Showers’s work came as I was rushing down the stairs of a seminary library, researching Paul’s “old man/new man” terminology. A friend stopped me, directed me to Showers’s doctoral dissertation, and out from the microfilm
Election and Perseverance
Election and Perseverance. College Studies Series. By C. Norman Sellers. Miami Springs, FL: Shoettle Publishing Co., 1987. 193 pp. Cloth, $12.95. Divine determinism and human free will occupy opposite poles on the theological spectrum. Invariably, whenever one attempts to emphasize one over the other, the balance is disturbed. Robert Shank’s doctrines of election and eternal
Rebuilding Your Broken World
Rebuilding Your Broken World. By Gordon MacDonald. Nashville: Oliver-Nelson Publishers, 1988. 224 pp. Cloth, $12.95. Gordon MacDonald’s previous major work, Ordering Your Private World, presented the idea that each believer has an inner “garden,” a relationship with God that must be cultivated daily through devotions and discipline. If this “private world” is not consistently maintained,
The Cosmic Center
The Cosmic Center. Revised Edition. By D. Bruce Lockerbie. Portland: Multnomah Press, 1986. 194 pp. Cloth, $11.95. The subtitle of this book tells its story: The Supremacy of Christ in a Secular Wasteland. Lockerbie does a commendable job of painting the despair, pain, and meaninglessness of philosophies which do not have the Lord Jesus Christ
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We Believe In: Good Works
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” —Ephesians 2:10, emphasis supplied I. Introduction “You Protestants,” said the pious and elderly lady standing at the back of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C. to the teenage art school student (who was
Repentance and Salvation Part 3: New Testament Repentance: Lexical Considerations
Robert N. Wilkin* I. Introduction There he was again. I’d seen him on telecasts of baseball and football games. Now here he was on a PGA golf tournament telecast somehow repeatedly getting on camera with his rainbow Afro wig and his evangelistic T-shirt. What did he mean with his one word message, REPENT? What did
An Evaluation of Some Evidences For “Lordship Salvation”
Paul Holloway* I. Introduction The observations in this article are primarily philosophical. The point is not to overturn the conclusions of those holding Lordship Salvation,1 but to examine certain of the more popular evidences offered in support of these conclusions. While it is true that the issue properly conceived comes down to biblical interpretation, it
A Voice from the Past: Assurance of Faith and Posession of Salvation
César Malan* What we need to possess, above every other good, is peace of mind, contentment of heart. In whatever condition man may be, from the monarch to the peasant, he seeks this happiness, and as long as he is deprived of it he is not at rest. And yet man never attains it as
Grace in the Arts: The Coronation of The King – An Annotated Work of Fiction: Part I
Frank D. Carmical* And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall he one thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days.1 —Daniel 12:11-12 The past forty-four days had