“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets Paul squarely against a temptation as old as religion itself: the temptation to distinguish between the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“With such questions as these, we perhaps approach a critical parting of the ways, a point at which our two pictures of God diverge… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Let no one persuade you that there is in Him a little darkness, because of something he has said which His creature interprets into… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Here is an example of what I mean. One of my professors was far more enlightened than I in his consistent opposition to racial… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Some will no doubt balk at the idea that perfect justice in a theistic universe would lay so many requirements, however self-imposed, upon God… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“Now I have no doubt that, more often than not, a moral drawn from history lies in the eye of the beholder. But the… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“For insofar as fear of eternal damnation and the power of excommunication, backed by the coercive power of the state, had become the Emperor’s… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether,… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“The election of one person, as Paul understood it, inevitably reaches beyond the elected person to incorporate, in a variety of ways, the community… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“An answer commonly given is that through suffering Jesus was perfected in his role as savior ; 254 and though that seems right as… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
“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 essence [or… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share
