Willing to Believe
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Willing to Believe

The Controversy over Free Will

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Willing to Believe

The Controversy over Free Will

About this book

What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall.
In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Illustrations and Figures
  7. Introduction: Evangelicalism and an Ancient Heresy
  8. 1 We Are Capable of Obedience: Pelagius
  9. 2 We Are Incapable of Obedience: Augustine
  10. 3 We Are Capable of Cooperating: Semi-Pelagians
  11. 4 We Are in Bondage to Sin: Martin Luther
  12. 5 We Are Voluntary Slaves: John Calvin
  13. 6 We Are Free to Believe: James Arminius
  14. 7 We Are Inclined to Sin: Jonathan Edwards
  15. 8 We Are Not Depraved by Nature: Charles Grandison Finney
  16. 9 We Are Able to Believe: Lewis Sperry Chafer
  17. Notes
  18. Latin Glossary
  19. Index of Subjects
  20. Index of Personal Names
  21. Index of Scripture