Evangelical Christian books that describe
conflicting beliefs about key religious topics

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InterVarsity Press, Zondervan, and other publishers produce books which describe the full range of conservative Christian beliefs about important religious topics. In some of these books, a number of leading evangelical Christian writers explain their personal views on a specific topic, and critique each others beliefs.

It is worth noting that each of the authors is intelligent, sincere, serious, devout, thoughtful and supremely confident that their own belief is the only one that is biblically based . Yet, their conclusions conflict with each other. These series of books illustrates very clearly some of the ambiguities which are found in the Bible.

Some theologians argue that since the Bible is ambiguous, the term "inerrancy" has no meaning as applied to the Bible.

 InterVarsity Press:

• Predestination: David & Randall Basinger, "Predestination and Free Will: Four views on Divine sovereignty and human freedom." (1986). Read reviews and/or safely purchase this book from Amazon.com online bookstore 
• War: Robert Clouse. "Theologians and philosophers examine four approaches to war," (1991) Out of print and very expensive. Read reviews and/or order.
• Wealth & poverty: "Four Christian views of economics," (1984). Read reviews and/or order.
• Female clergy: Robert & Bonnidell Clouse, "Women in ministry: Four Views," (1989). Read reviews and/or order.
• Hell: E.W. Fudge & R.A. Peterson, "Two views of Hell: A biblical and theological dialog," (2000) Read reviews and/or order.
• Divorce: H.W. House, Ed., "Divorce and remarriage: Four Christian views," (1990). Read reviews and/or order.
• Millennium: George Ladd & Robert Clouse, "Four theologians debate the major millennial views," (1977) Read reviews and/or order.

Zondervan:

Their Counterpoints series of books covers many topics:

• Rapture: G.L. Archer, Jr., et al., "Three views on the rapture," Read reviews or order this book.
• Law: G.L. Bahnsen et. al., "Five views of law and gospel," Read reviews or order this book.
• Female clergy: J.R. Beck et al., "Two views on women in ministry," Read reviews or order this book
• Millennium: D.L. Bock, "Three views on the millennium and beyond," Read reviews or order this book.
• Apologetics: S.B. Cowan, et al., "Five views on apologetics," Read reviews or order this book.
• Hell: W. Crockett, "Four views on Hell," Read reviews or order this book
• Sanctification: M. Dieter, et al., "Five views on sanctification," Read reviews or order this book.
• Miraculous gifts: W.A. Grudem at al., "Are miraculous gifts for today: Four views," Read reviews or order this book.
• God & genocide: S.N. Gundry, et al., "Show them no mercy: 4 views on God and Canaanite genocide," Read reviews or order this book.
• Creation & evolution: J.P. Moreland et al., Ed., "Three views on creation and evolution," (None of the three views include naturalistic evolution.) Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store.
• Salvation: D.L. Okholm, Ed., "Four views on salvation in a pluralistic world," Read reviews or order this book.
• Revelation: C.M. Pate, Ed., "Four views on the Book of Revelation," Read reviews or order this book.
• Eternal security: J.M. Pinson, et al., "Four views on eternal security," Read reviews or order this book.

Other publishers:

• Revelation: Steve Gregg, "Revelation: Four views. A parallel commentary," Thomas Nelson. Gregg describes the preterist, historicist, futurist and spiritual (or symbolic or idealist) interpretations of the last book in the Bible. Read reviews or order this book.

Latest update: 2008-SEP-01
Author: B.A. Robinson

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