This must be the best summary of Reformed Theology's many and varied positions on free choice and providence I have ever read in one place. Glad I found it.
Thank you for this letter, it is extremely useful as I navigate these topics. Can I ask where one can find sources that indicate that Piper's 'compatabilism'?
I understand "disordered loves." If Augustine had stopped there it would have been good. Because are "disordered loves" not equivalent to "the passions?" But does God have to make a special act of "prevenient" grace, or is that already given (if God does everything to return us to grace?). And then to introduce the innovation of "merits," and "demerits". Oh, dear!
This must be the best summary of Reformed Theology's many and varied positions on free choice and providence I have ever read in one place. Glad I found it.
Thank you for this letter, it is extremely useful as I navigate these topics. Can I ask where one can find sources that indicate that Piper's 'compatabilism'?
I understand "disordered loves." If Augustine had stopped there it would have been good. Because are "disordered loves" not equivalent to "the passions?" But does God have to make a special act of "prevenient" grace, or is that already given (if God does everything to return us to grace?). And then to introduce the innovation of "merits," and "demerits". Oh, dear!