Evangelical Christian books describing
conflicting beliefs on key religious topics

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Background and implications:

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 as being false.

It is worth noting that each of the authors is intelligent, sincere, serious, devout, thoughtful theologian and is quite confident that their own belief is the only one that is biblically based. Yet, the authors' conclusions conflict with each other.

These series of books illustrates very clearly some of the ambiguities that theologians have found in the Bible. Some academics suggest that since the Bible appears to be quite ambiguous, terms such as "inerrancy" or "authoritative" cannot really be applied to the Bible. That is, although there is reasonable agreement about what the Bible says concerning many basic beliefs, there is no consensus on what it means.

 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:

	Thomas Nelson: Revelation: Steve Gregg, "Revelation: Four views. A parallel commentary," 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.
	Kregel Publications: Dispensationalism: Herbert W. Bateman IV, "Three central issues in contemporary dispensationalism: A comparison of traditional and progressive views."

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

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