Book Review: Grace for All
John D. Wagner assembled inputs from a wide ranges of authors to put together Grace for All: The Arminian Dynamics of Salvation . The book starts off with Roger Olson defending Arminianism from the charge of being “man-centered”. Olson notes that Richard Watson affirmed God could have prevented the fall and that James Arminius only affirmed free will to defend God's righteousness. Olson says that the doctrine of divine concurrence with secondary causes is the primary way of defending God's sovereignty in Arminianism. The book moves on to Vernon Grounds, whose mystical style is not my cup of tea. He focuses on the personal nature of grace. Next comes Glen Shellrude. He makes Calvinists pay full price for determinism by surveying a variety of biblical texts through the lens of determinism. Shellrude doesn't take on compatibilism directly; he just focuses on the awkward results of determinism. He ends by saying atheism makes more sense than Calvinism.