Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will

by R. C. Sproul

Overview

What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall.
In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585581535
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	655,556
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

R. C. Sproul (1939-2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization located near Orlando, Florida. He was also founding pastor of Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Florida, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine. His radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online. Dr. Sproul contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, spoke at conferences, churches, colleges, and seminaries around the world, and wrote more than one hundred books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, and Everyone's a Theologian. He also served as general editor of the Reformation Study Bible.

Table of Contents

	Preface	9
	Illustrations and Figures	11
	Introduction: Evangelicalism and an Ancient Heresy	15
1	We Are Capable of Obedience	33
2	We Are Incapable of Obedience	49
3	We Are Capable of Cooperating	69
4	We Are in Bondage to Sin	87
5	We Are Voluntary Slaves	105
6	We Are Free to Believe	125
7	We Are Inclined to Sin	147
8	We Are Not Depraved by Nature	169
9	We Are Able to Believe	189
	Notes	205
	Latin Glossary	215
	Index of Personal Names	217
	Index of Scripture	221