Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology »

Gregory A. Boyd (PhD, Princeton Theological Seminary) is the senior pastor at Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, and formerly served as professor of theology at Bethel University. Paul R. Eddy (PhD, Marquette University) is professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Boyd and Eddy are coauthors of The Jesus Legend.

This new edition of a popular text presents an accessible yet comprehensive primer that helps readers understand the breadth of viewpoints on major issues in evangelical theology, with chapters using the popular three- or four-views book format. The authors carefully examine positions taken by evangelical scholars on seventeen seminal issues. They lay out the biblical, theological, and philosophical arguments for each position in point-counterpoint fashion and discuss possible objections.

The second edition retains the helpful features of the first edition--end-of-chapter "For Further Reading" sections and an extensive glossary--and adds an appendix that addresses thirteen peripheral issues in contemporary evangelicalism.

1. The Inerrancy Debate

Without Error of Any Kind (The Inerrantist View)

Infallible in Matters of Faith and Practice (The Infallibilist View)

2. The Providence Debate

All Things Happen according to God's Sovereign Will (The Calvinist View)

God Limits His Control by Granting Freedom (The Arminian View)

3. The Foreknowledge Debate

God Foreknows Future Free Actions (The Arminian View)

God Foreknows by Sovereignly Ordaining the Future (The Calvinist View)

God Foreknows All That Shall Be and All That May Be (The Open View)

4. The Genesis Debate

Created in the Recent Past (The Young Earth View)

A Very Old Work of Art (The Day-Age View)

Restoring a Destroyed Creation (The Restoration View)

Literary Theme over Literal Chronology (The Literary Framework View)

5. The Divine Image Debate

The Image of God Is the Soul (The Substantival View)

The Image of God Is Our God-Given Authority (The Functional View)

The Image of God Is Our Relationality (The Relational View)

6. The Christology Debate

The Unavoidable Paradox of the God-man (The Classical View)

Christ Relinquished His Divine Prerogatives (The Kenotic View)

7. The Atonement Debate

Christ Died in Our Place (The Penal Substitution View)

Christ Destroyed Satan and His Works (The Christus Victor View)

Christ Displayed God's Wrath against Sin (The Moral Government View)

8. The Salvation Debate

TULIP (The Calvinist View)

God Wants All to Be Saved (The Arminian View)

9. The Sanctification Debate

Sanctification as a Declaration by God (The Lutheran View)

Sanctification as Holiness in Christ and in Personal Conduct (The Reformed [Calvinist] View)

Sanctification as Resting-Faith in the Sufficiency of Christ (The Keswick "Deeper Life" View)

Entire Sanctification as Perfect Love (The Wesleyan View)

10. The Eternal Security Debate

Secure in the Power of God (The Eternal Security View)

The Need to Persist in Faith (The Conditional Security View)

11. The Destiny of the Unevangelized Debate

No Other Name (The Restrictivist View)

God Does All He Can Do (The Universal Opportunity View)

Hope beyond the Grave (The Postmortem Evangelism View)

He Has Not Left Himself without a Witness (The Inclusivist View)

12. The Baptism Debate

Baptism and Christian Discipleship (The Believer's Baptism View)

Covenanting with the Community of God (The Infant Baptism View)

13. The Lord's Supper Debate

"This Is My Body" (The Spiritual Presence View)

"In Remembrance of Me" (The Memorial View)

14. The Charismatic Gifts Debate

The Gifts Are for Today (The Continuationist View)

"Tongues Shall Cease" (The Cessationist View)

15. The Women in Ministry Debate

Created Equal, with Complementary Roles (The Complementarian View)

The Irrelevance of Gender for Spiritual Authority (The Egalitarian View)

16. The Millennium Debate

The Return before the Reign (The Premillennial View)

Working toward and Waiting for a Coming Reign of Peace (The Postmillennial View)

The Symbolic Thousand-Year Conquest of Satan (The Amillennial View)

17. The Hell Debate

The Unending Torment of the Wicked (The Classical View)

The Wicked Shall Be No More (The Annihilationist View)

Appendix

Glossary

Index