Outline : For many years the theology of liberation, which emerged from Latin America in the 1970s, was viewed with suspicion and even hostility in Rome. In this historic exchange, Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the original architects of liberation theology, and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, current Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, offer a new and positive chapter. Car…
Outline : Nigel Voak examines the genesis and evolution of religious evidentialism in England from 1585 to 1700, a deeply influential epistemology which claims that religious beliefs are only justified to the extent that we have evidence to substantiate them, and that we have an obligation to proportion our assent to the strength of our evidence. Given the propositions of faith lack the evident…
Outline : Too often scholars impose on the past modern terms and theories. This is particularly evident concerning discussions of divine sovereignty and human responsibility, where libertarian and compatibilist notions of freedom obscure older understandings of concurrence. Providence, Freedom, and the Will is one historian’s attempt to help us interpret early modern documents in context with…
One of the questions fairly consistently raised by modern studies of Arminius's thought is the question of his relationship to the Reformed tradition and, specifically, to Dutch Reformed theology. To pose the question succinctly, was Arminius Reformed? The answer is quite complex. Arminius certainly understood himself as Reformed—and his appointment both to the pastorate in Amsterdam and to t…
The monograph waited and, in fact, was placed on a "back burner"
while I revised the dissertation for publication as Christ and the Decree
and wrote a Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms, Drawn
Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology. When I returned to the
project, my bibliography had expanded and my thoughts on the subject had elaborated considerably.
God's providence over the world posed a traditional set of questions for the medieval philosopher-theologian. In the third part of his first principal part of The Universe of Creatures, William of Auvergne argues that God's providence over creation extends to all things, the lowest as well as the highest. He tackles problems, such as pain, suffering, and other evils and faces questions, such as…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen have remained in constat demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a startling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scrupulou…
Outline: Since his death in 1947, the writings of missionary Roland Allen, have remained in constant of demand. When Allen's careful analysis in Missionary Methods first appeared 82 years ago, it made a strartling impression. And as Allen himself predicted, the true depth of his writings only began to be fully probed fifty years later. Profoundly biblical, Allen's "methods" are drawn from a scr…
Outline: In this book, Rolland Muller removes the mystique from shame-based cultures. Using the Bible, he introduces us to honor, shame, and fear-based cultures, illustrating their development over the years and demonstrating their influence on our understanding of the gospel message. Muller goes on to illustrate how the 10/40window is made up almost exclusively of shame-based cultures. He then…
Outline: Most cross-cultural church-planting ministries face three critical issues. First, church planters must be accepted as valid messengers. They must be people with credibility that can speak clearly into their listeners' situation. Second, their message must be understandable. Muller explains that everyone has a worldview built from three basic building blocks found in Genesis 3: shame, g…
Outline: In an environment of increasing religious pluralism, the State's responsibility for the protection of equal religious freedom for all is gaining in importance. Yet the more religion tends to assert a public role, the more the State must be able to count on the recognition by religions themselves of religious pluralism and religious freedom also for others. This requires an opening o…
Outline: This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to Christian theological writing in Western Europe from, roughly, the end of the French Wars of Religion (1598) to the Congress of Vienna (1815). Over the course of more than forty wide-ranging essays, employing a variety of approaches, the authors examine theology from Bellarmine to Johann Semler. They review the major …
Overview: The Reformed tradition is characterized by a rigorous commitment to theological formulation, yet it is equally known for its commitment for rooting its life and practice in the authority of God's Word. While these two commitments are commonly acknowledged, the path from biblical interpretation to doctrinal formulation is often overlooked. Examining a diverse group of thinkers across…
"Richard Muller, a world-class scholar of the Reformation era, examines the relationship of Calvin's theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin's place in the tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and variegated movement not suitably described either as founded solely on the thought of John Calvin…