New Feature for Purchasers of The Promise of Arminian Theology
We want to say a special thanks to the many Forum readers who have purchased copies of The Promise of Arminian Theology: Essays in Honor of F. Leroy Forlines. Since its publication in the fall of 2016, we’ve enjoyed receiving feedback on it from many quarters. We were honored put together this festschrift, and we hope it will stimulate more reflection on Mr. Forlines’s legacy and the issues he has cared so deeply about throughout his...
Forum Contributors Share Their Favorite Books
Each year Forum contributors read, review, or survey hundreds of books. We try to share the best of our reading with Forum readers in the form of quarterly book recommendations. However, as 2017 draws to a close, each of us look back over the year and consider what book rises to the top of our lists—the ones that stimulated our thinking, challenged our thinking, or in some cases, brought great delight. Below each contributor shares...
Giving the Gift of the Gospel for Christmas
It’s the Christmas season, and most Forum readers have given some consideration to what they might give (or receive) for Christmas. While families will differ on the degree to which gift-giving comprises their holiday traditions, most will give or receive at least a couple of gifts. Though the Helwys Society Forum is an independent website, its members are unapologetically members of Free Will Baptist churches and employed by Free...
ETS 2017: In Perspective
by Jackson Watts, Matthew Bracey, and Jesse Owens Two weeks ago the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society was held in Providence, Rhode Island. For nearly seventy years the society has existed to promote and encourage rigorous biblical and theological scholarship. ETS publishes a quarterly journal known as JETS (Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society), has regional chapters which hold annual meetings, and...
Recommended Books (Fall 2017)
“Words are the progeny of the soul,” states Clement of Alexandria (A.D. 150-215).[1] As our bodies produce children for posterity, so do our souls. Just as we all wish to produce good children to build up the coming generation, Clement argues we should be careful to leave only the best words to those who come after us. In this way of thinking, “wisdom is a communicative and philanthropic thing.”[2] For this reason, Clement cautions us...
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