The opening chapter of Peckham’s 2015 IVP Reader’s Choice Award-winning book introduces two major and conflicting models of Divine love: the transcendent-voluntarist model–an inheritance of classical theism, and the immanent-experientialist model–representing process theism. In classical theism, God is characterized as “self-sufficient, perfect, si
"God With Us" I recently came across a verse in the Bible that gave me encouragement with regards to church unity in a way I wasn’t expecting. Typically, this verse is used around the Christmas holiday as a prophetic look at the expected first coming of Christ and what He would do for humanity. That verse is ‘“Behold the Virgin shall be with Child,
I received your letter while in the midst of the Conference duties. Since that meeting closed I have been sorely afflicted with my teeth, and I am in such a state of nervous weakness that I cannot write as lengthily as I would be pleased to do. I have been unable as yet to find the writings which you mention, but I may find them, and if I do will s
It became Him for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in the redemption of the world to save sinners by the blood of the Lamb. The great sacrifice of the Son of God was neither too great nor too small to accomplish the work. In the wisdom of God it was complete; and the atonement made testifies to every son and daughter of Adam the imm
