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Volume 5 concludes the Puritan Papers—a compilation of papers originally given at an annual conference that played a vital role in reinvigorating evangelicalism in Great Britain and beyond. This final volume contains 11 chapters, two by editor J. I. Packer: “Arminianisms” and “The Doctrine of Justification among the Puritans.” This volume also includes John R. de Witt’s “The Arminian Conflict and...

But why should Arminianisms vary in this way? The final answer is: not because Arminians are personally erratic, but because all Arminian positions are intrinsically and in principle unstable. Arminianism is a slippery slope, and it is always arbitrary where one stops on the slide down. All Arminianisms start from a rationalistic hermeneutic which reads into the Bible at every point the philosophic axiom that to be responsible before God man’s acts must be contingent in relation to him. All Arminianisms
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