The Wonderful Decree

The Wonderful DecreeUnconditionally loving. Sovereign over all. How can God be sovereign over all things and loving toward all people while His creatures possess real freedom and responsibility for their choices? Theologians have wrestled with this question for centuries. But have our attempted solutions made the problem worse? In Wonderful Decree, Travis James Campbell suggests we cannot solve the problem by sacrificing either divine sovereignty and goodness on one hand

This major statement by a leading missiologist represents a lifetime of wrestling with a topic every cross-cultural leader must address: how to adapt the universal gospel to particular settings

it has been embraced by Christians over centuries for personal study

and theological--to help them better understand its meaning and relevance

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showing how the atonement is a fuller process

this work critically engages contemporary and classical doctrines of the Holy Spirit in dialogue with Orthodox and Reformed interlocutors

John Peckham offers a constructive proposal for a theodicy of love that upholds both the sovereignty of God and human freedom

Genesis presents evil as the taking of something good and twisting it for one's own purposes rather than enjoying it how God intended

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Hamilton observes the significance of the Psalter's intentional macro-structuring and intricate links across neighboring psalms

Leading Scholars Debate a Key New Testament Topic