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Brad Cooper, NewSpring Church, and heaven's eternal kegger by Peter Lumpkins

Unlike Mark Driscoll, Perry Noble serves an affiliate church of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). NewSpring Church's main campus is in Anderson, South Carolina and has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade, expanding to several campuses in several cities with a combined Sunday attendance of approximately 14,000. But like Mark Driscoll, Noble's influence among the younger generation of Southern Baptist pastors remains impressive¹   >>>

Love Wins by Rob Bell: A Book Note by Peter Lumpkins

  I finally finished my copy of Love Wins: A Book about Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person who Ever Lived by Rob Bell (hereafter, Love Wins, HarperOne 2011, $22.99). Some wondered why I have not already written a review. Others questioned my motives for posting a Reformed scholar’s review, while one blogger even strangely implicated me in surfing the internet looking for positive reviews of Bell’s book to post. Two quick points: a) I did not sense the urgency in critiquing Bell’s position before I actually read Bell’s position as did The Gospel Coalition bloggers (along with a few Southern Baptist bloggers); b) I do not schedule blogs to be posted based on others’ curiosities or desires. I have a limited amount of time to dedicate to this site. In short, I can only do so much>>>

Love Wins by Rob Bell: A Reformed Scholar's Review by Dr. Paul Owen

SBC Tomorrow welcomes Dr. Paul Owen as guest contributor*

 

  Having heard all of the internet buzz about Rob Bell’s new book, I decided to stop in at the local bookstore and pick up a copy.  It’s an extremely short book, and only takes a couple of hours to read.  It has a relaxing and engaging tone and writing style, and I’m sure it will sell well, given all the publicity it has received on Morning Joe and other news venues.  But what of the content?>>>

On Hell: A Helpful Bibliography by Peter Lumpkins

   James Davidson Hunter noted in his 1987 landmark study, Evangelicalism: The Coming Generation (University of Chicago,1987, 38), "…it is clear that there is a measurable degree of uneasiness within this generation of Evangelicals with the notion of an eternal damnation” while Richard Bauckham had already lamented a decade before--since 1800 “no traditional Christian doctrine has been so widely abandoned as that of eternal punishment” (Universalism: A Historical Survey,” Themelios 4 (1979) 48).

Indeed Bauckham quotes H.R. Macintosh from 1914>>>

Clark Pinnock on Eternal Torment & Millard Erickson on Clark Pinnock by Peter Lumpkins

   The late Clark Pinnock was one of the more provocative evangelical theologians.* His firey literary style riled his many (and just) critics about as much as some of his theological heterodoxy>>>