among contemporary evangelicals is that of Millard Erickson, Gordon Lewis, and Bruce Demarest.13 Such a view, while it borrows from both Arminianism and Calvinism, never fully agrees with either. The modified view’s differences are easily demonstrated through the logical ordering of salvation. In the classical Arminian view prevenient grace is primary, followed by man’s free will decision in conversion, and consequently God’s response in regeneration. Therefore, regeneration is causally conditioned
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