Dave Hunt & James White. Debating Calvinism: Five Points, Two Views. Multnomah, 2004. 432 pp.





One of the purposes of a debate in the formal sense of the word is to persuade. The object is to persuade the audience that your position is the appropriate view to adopt. Over several generations the debate over the theological views developed by John Calvin has become more and more heated. In response, James White (the champion of Reformed Theology) and Dave Hunt (the Opponent of Calvinism) have participated in a lengthy formal debate. The debate has been removed from the classical oral format and collected in the volume Debating Calvinism.
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James White. The Potter’s Freedom. Calvary Press, 2000. 343 pp.
James White’s The Potter’s Freedom, which bears the subtitle “A Defense of the Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler’s Chosen But Free,” is a potent, yet irenic, attack on man-centered soteriology. Written on a non-technical level, TPF systematically responds to the arguments set forth by Geisler against historic Calvinistic theology. TPF has gained wide acceptance by the Reformed camp as a lucid and thorough response to Arminianism, containing the testimony of twenty-seven Reformed evangelicals and two forewords by Phillip R. Johnson and R. C. Sproul, Jr., all of whom highly praise the book. TPF seeks not so much to be a positive presentation of the Reformed faith, but rather a critique of the flawed position set forth in CBF (30).
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