Here are some interesting facts.
William Shedd studied under Leonard Woods at Andover Seminary. Woods held to unlimited atonement. Shedd was Gardiner Spring’s associate pastor. Spring held to unlimited atonement. Shedd succeeded Henry B. Smith at Union for Systematics Lecturer. Henry B. Smith held to unlimited atonement.
There are a range of other connections between [...]
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Recently I saw one blog reference the double-payment dilemma. You can see its very brief remark here.
I would like to table a clarification regarding the theological point of the double-payment double-jeopardy dilemma.
But first, I would like to keep this as friendly as possible. If anyone wants to reply or challenge me, please stay with [...]
Continue reading about Double-Payment and Double-Jeopardy: Three Documented Responses
I found the following from Shedd. It shows that Shedd, and most probably C Hodge, and Dabney, followed Jonathan Edwards on the atonement, rather than Owen. In the following comment you will see a model of the atonement which clearly rejects Owen’s transactionalist model:
It is needless to remark, that Edwards does not concede that the [...]
Most people love Warfield, but I have never warmed to the man’s writings. I was not overly fussed about his work on Scripture: the claim that an incredible amount of inductive evidence amounts to, is as good as, deductive evidence really pushed the wrong button with me. His work on Augustine is naive historically: its [...]
Continue reading about BB Warfield on the removal of legal obsctacles:
I thought this was interesting. Not just because its inline with Flynn’s argumentation here on the blog, but MacArthur also lists the same Reformed Theologians that David has been exegeting for us.
Reformed theology has historically been the branch of evangelicalism most strongly committed to the sovereignty of God. At the same time, the mainstream of [...]
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