Thomas Talbott

“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The…

— Thomas Talbott

“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who…

— Thomas Talbott

“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The…

— Thomas Talbott

“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power…

— Thomas Talbott

“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature…

— Thomas Talbott

“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to…

— Thomas Talbott

“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying…

— Thomas Talbott

“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are…

— Thomas Talbott

“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become…

— Thomas Talbott

“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition…

— Thomas Talbott

“An answer commonly given is that through suffering Jesus was perfected in his role as savior ; 254 and though that seems…

— Thomas Talbott

“The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways,…

— Thomas Talbott

“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of…

— Thomas Talbott

“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed,…

— Thomas Talbott

“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder.…

— Thomas Talbott

“Though such an explicit contradiction is no doubt bewildering, Calvin’s final conclusion—namely, that the author of 1 John “does not speak of the…

— Thomas Talbott