Across the spectrum : understanding issues in evangelical theology / Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The inerrancy debate -- Without error of any kind (the inerrantist view) -- Infallible in matters of faith and practice (the infallibilist view) -- The providence debate -- All things happen according to God's sovereign will (the Calvinist view) -- God limits his control by granting freedom (the Arminian view) -- The foreknowledge debate -- God foreknows future free actions (the Arminian view) -- God foreknows by sovereignly ordaining the future (the Calvinist view) -- God foreknows all that shall be and all that may be (the open view) -- The Genesis debate -- Created in the recent past (the young earth view) -- A very old work of art (the day-age view) -- Restoring a destroyed creation (the restoration view) -- Literary theme over literal chronology (the literary framework view) -- The divine image debate -- The image of God is the soul (the substantival view) -- The image of God is our God-given authority (the functional view) -- The image of God is our relationality (the relational view) -- The christology debate -- The unavoidable paradox of the god-man (the classical view) -- Christ relinquished His divine prerogatives (the kenotic view) -- The atonement debate -- Christ died in our place (the penal substitution view) -- Christ destroyed Satan and his works (the Christus Victor view) -- Christ displayed God's wrath against sin (the moral government view) -- The salvation debate -- Tulip (the calvinist view) -- God wants all to be saved (the Arminian view) -- The sanctification debate -- Sanctification as a declaration by God (the Lutheran view) -- Sanctification as holiness in Christ and in personal conduct (the Reformed [Calvinist] view) -- Sanctification as resting-faith in the sufficiency of Christ (the Keswick "deeper life" view) -- Entire sanctification as perfect love (the Wesleyan view) -- The eternal security debate -- Secure in the power of God (the eternal security view) -- The need to persist in faith (the conditional security view) -- The destiny of the unevangelized debate -- No other name (the restrictivist view) -- God does all He can do (the universal opportunity view) -- Hope beyond the grave (the postmortem evangelism view) -- He has not left himself without a witness (the inclusivist view) -- The baptism debate -- Baptism and Christian discipleship (the believer's baptism view) -- Covenanting with the community of God (the infant baptism view) -- The Lord's supper debate -- "This is my body" (the spiritual presence view) -- "In remembrance of me" (the memorial view) -- The charismatic gifts debate -- The gifts are for today (the continuationist view) -- "Tongues shall cease" (the cessationist view) -- The women in ministry debate -- Created equal, with complementary roles (the complementarian view) -- The irrelevance of gender for spiritual authority (the egalitarian view) -- The millennium debate -- The return before the reign (the premillennial view) -- Working toward and waiting for a coming reign of peace (the postmillennial view) -- The symbolic thousand-year conquest of Satan (the amillennial view) -- The hell debate -- The unending torment of the wicked (the classical view) -- The wicked shall be no more (the annihilationist view).