By Mark R. Stevenson,Tim Grass
ISBN-10: 1498281117
ISBN-13: 9781498281119
The concentration of this publication is to set up how one nineteenth-century evangelical crew, the Brethren, replied to those and different comparable questions. The Brethren produced a few colourful leaders whose impression used to be felt through the evangelical global. even if many critics have assumed the movement's theology used to be Arminian, this ebook argues that the Brethren, with few exceptions, endorsed Calvinistic positions. but there have been a few twists alongside the best way! The movement's radical biblicism, passionate evangelism, and robust aversion to systematic theology and creeds intended they refused to label themselves as Calvinists even if they affirmed Calvinism's soteriological principles--the so-called doctrines of grace.
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