In chapters three and five he distances himself from the Calvinist understanding of absolute divine sovereignty and theological determinism, rejecting both because of their incompatibility with his preferred understanding of moral freedom. In chapter nine he tells us that “divine providence is ...
and we grew up lionizing men like Bob Jones, Sr. and John R. Rice for their stand against Billy Graham’s dalliance with liberalism beginning in his 1957 Manhattan Crusade. We saw their stand as heroic, pushing against the majority, against the news media, against star-struck ...
punctuated by the promise of the Paraclete. Chapter 17 is widely known as Jesus’ High Priestly Prayer where he prays for himself (17:1–5), his disciples (17:6–19), and followers yet to be because of the disciples’ witness in the world (17:20–26). John’s Passion Narrative (18...