How Is Election Particular | Stephen Williams
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 2022-09-12

2009 Kantzer Lecture #4 - The Question of Election and Particular Atonement

In his fourth lecture, Professor Williams turns to election in the New Testament. He is particularly concerned here with predestination and election statements and the proper deployment of such statements in systematic formulation. Williams himself advocates reading these statements along broadly Augustinian lines and in doing so, proposes a moderate form of single predestination.  Entailed in this is a passive view regarding God’s action toward the non-elect. That is to say, the non-elect are “passed over” rather than actively predestined to reprobation.

Stephen N. Williams (PhD Yale University) is Honorary Professor of Theology at Queen’s University and served as a Senior Research Fellow with the Creation Project. His books include Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity (Baker Academic, 2006), and The Election of Grace: A Riddle without a Resolution? (Eerdmans, 2015).

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