by Katrina King In the seventeenth century, the doctrinal dispute over predestination came to the forefront in the Netherlands, serving as a means to further divide Protestants and stir up dissension. Originating with the seemingly contradictory theology of John Calvin (1509-1564) and Jacob Arminius (1560-1609), the debate carried over into more…

by David Hendricks One of the main questions that every Christian tradition seeks to answer is: how can humanity be saved? There are many answers to that question. The Eastern Orthodox tradition tends to see sin as disease, and salvation as therapeutic, while Western Christianity tends to see sin as more…

by Abigail Hochberger Through the lives of Oxford students and ordained ministers, John Wesley (1703-1791) and George Whitefield (1714-1770), Methodism was born and flourished in England in the eighteenth century. Both humble servants of Christ, they preached from the Word of God, adding nothing new or untrue in the Gospel, more…

by Elaine Harris Wales appears a small, almost insignificant place to become the birthplace of a movement, yet it played an influential role in one of the many doctrinal disputes in Christianity. In the eighteenth century, a time when Calvinism and Arminianism were hotly debated, a sect of Methodism developed more…