The Quest for Truth: Theology for Postmodern Times
Overview
The Quest for Truth answers “inescapable questions of life” from the standard of God’s authoritative Word. This invaluable tool seriously discusses profound truths that apply to every facet of life. Biblical truth should be made applicable to the total personality.
The Quest for Truth gives an overview of systematic theology and its implications for the transformation of the entire person. This volume answers ably the who of life, the why of direction, and the where of one’s destiny, showing Forlines’ passion for understanding the truth of God’s Word. Forlines writes this work for every Christian, not just for theologians. He sets before us a powerful vision of God’s holiness, and calls us to holy living. Forlines also offers a contemporary yet historic interpretation of Classical Reformed Arminianism. Anyone interested in understanding a present-day view of Arminianism will want to study this work carefully. The book is an excellent resource for scholars, pastors, students, and laypeople alike.
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- Includes subject, author, and Scripture indexes
- Contains a foreword by Stephen M. Ashby and J. Matthew Pinson
Top Highlights
“In a sense we can say that in postmodernism everything is ‘true’ and everything is ‘false.’ Postmodernism accepts everything and rejects everything. Postmodernism is not hindered by the law of non-contradiction.20 Everything is true in the sense of ‘true for you’ or ‘true for me.’ Nothing is true in the sense of true by a standard of absolute Truth. In that sense everything is false.” (Page 16)
“The rejection of a metanarrative by postmodernism means that they reject the idea of a worldview that explains the whole of reality. There are worldviews, but there is not one worldview that is true and that judges other worldviews as being false. There is a rejection of the correspondence theory of Truth.” (Pages 14–15)
“God’s holiness demands that sin be punished, but there is nothing in God’s nature that demands He offer redemption. It is the free act of His love.” (Page 37)
“Systematic theology is a topical study of the whole of Christian Truth, using any and all sources of Truth, with a view to seeing the parts as making up an integrated and harmonious whole, resulting in a Christian worldview.” (Page 4)
“Rationalism tried to develop a rational worldview based on reason using innate ideas without the input of data from divine revelation.” (Page 8)
Professor Forlines has written at a level suitable for college students what must probably be the major contemporary exposition of Classical Arminianism. Writing against the background of the shift to post-modernism in today’s world, he covers several of the fundamental themes of theology. However, his primary focus is on salvation, justification, sanctification, perseverance and election, and he develops at greater length the approach already taken in his commentary on Romans. The result is a careful defense of a model in which God works to achieve salvation in human beings by “influence and response” rather than by “cause and effect,” a view which commends itself as doing better justice to the concept of a personal God entering into relationships with human beings as persons.
—I. Howard Marshall, emeritus professor of New Testament Exegesis and honorary research professor, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
In this book Leroy Forlines presents a lively, relevant, biblical restatement of classical Arminian theology. In a time when the choice seems to be Calvinism or “free will theism,” his classical Arminianism is most welcome. Believing that theology is for life, Forlines writes for every Christian not just for other theologians. His work appeals to the whole person, sets before us a powerful vision of God’s holiness, and calls us to holy living. Every Christian who seeks to be biblically faithful will grow by reading and digesting this nourishing work.
—Jonathan R. Wilson, Pioneer McDonald Chair of theology, Carey Theological College
Because the appearance of well-written, up-to-date, evangelical systematic theologies representing distinct traditions is relatively rare, the publication of Forlines’ volume is highly significant. The work is a well-studied and well-argued defense of a non-Wesleyan Arminianism by the leading theologians of the Free Will Baptist Church. Forlines has presented to the Christian community an excellent practical presentation and defense of the classical non-Wesleyan Arminianism that is rarely represented in the systematic theology sections of academic and church libraries, a challenge for Calvinistic writers to answer, and an example of the necessary and fruitful wedding of doctrine and life directed toward the zealous ministry of the gospel.
—L. Igou Hodges, professor of systematic theology, Columbia International University
- Title: The Quest for Truth: Theology for Postmodern Times
- Author: F. Leroy Forlines
- Publisher: Randall House
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 544