Recommended Books (Winter 2018)
The cold grey days of winter are here again. This year has been particularly frigid, driving even the hardiest indoors for unusually long spells. In such weather, there are few pass times more profitable than spending the day in a reading chair with a good book. Below we have provided some of our favorite reads from recent weeks that may be beneficial to you as we slog through the last half of the season. Be sure to leave us some of...
New Feature for Purchasers of The Promise of Arminian Theology
We want to say a special thanks to the many Forum readers who have purchased copies of The Promise of Arminian Theology: Essays in Honor of F. Leroy Forlines. Since its publication in the fall of 2016, we’ve enjoyed receiving feedback on it from many quarters. We were honored put together this festschrift, and we hope it will stimulate more reflection on Mr. Forlines’s legacy and the issues he has cared so deeply about throughout his...
Forum Contributors Share Their Favorite Books
Each year Forum contributors read, review, or survey hundreds of books. We try to share the best of our reading with Forum readers in the form of quarterly book recommendations. However, as 2017 draws to a close, each of us look back over the year and consider what book rises to the top of our lists—the ones that stimulated our thinking, challenged our thinking, or in some cases, brought great delight. Below each contributor shares...
Giving the Gift of the Gospel for Christmas
It’s the Christmas season, and most Forum readers have given some consideration to what they might give (or receive) for Christmas. While families will differ on the degree to which gift-giving comprises their holiday traditions, most will give or receive at least a couple of gifts. Though the Helwys Society Forum is an independent website, its members are unapologetically members of Free Will Baptist churches and employed by Free...
ETS 2017: In Perspective
by Jackson Watts, Matthew Bracey, and Jesse Owens Two weeks ago the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society was held in Providence, Rhode Island. For nearly seventy years the society has existed to promote and encourage rigorous biblical and theological scholarship. ETS publishes a quarterly journal known as JETS (Journal for the Evangelical Theological Society), has regional chapters which hold annual meetings, and...
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