Born 1937.
PhD (Manchester, 1963, supervised by F. F. Bruce)
1965-1969 Lecturer, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
1969-1974 Lecturer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois
1974-1977 Lecturer, Regent College, Vancover
1977-2002 Professor of Systematic Theology, McMaster Divinity College
Major Publications
A Defense of Biblical Infallibility (1967)
New Reformation: A Challenge to Southern Baptists (1968)
Biblical Revelation: The Foundation of Christian Theology (Moody Press, 1971)
‘Baptists and Biblical Authority’, Journal of Evangelical Theological Society 17 (1974)
Reason Enough: A Case for Christian Faith (IVP, 1980)
The Scripture Principle (Harper & Row, 1984)
‘Assessing Barth for Apologetics’ in How Karl Barth Changed My Mind (Eerdmans, 1986)
‘God Limits His Knowledge’ in Predestination and Free Will: Four Views of Divine Sovereignty (IVP, 1986)
‘Between Classical and Process Theism’ in Process Theology (Baker, 1987)
(ed.) The Grace of God, The Will of Man (Zondervan, 1989)
Tracking the Maze: Finding our Way through Modern Theology from an Evangelical Perspective (Harper & Row, 1990)
A Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions (Zondervan, 1992)
The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God, with Richard Rice, John Sanders, William Hasker and David Basinger (IVP, 1994)
Unbounded Love: A Good News Theology for the 21st Century with Robert C. Brow (IVP, 1994)
Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit (IVP, 1996)
‘God’s Sovereignty in Today’s World’, Theology Today 53.1 (April, 1996)
‘New Dimensions in Theological Method’ in New Dimensions in Evangelical Thought: Essays in Honour of Millard J. Erickson (IVP, 1998)
(ed.) with John Cobb, Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue Between Process and Free Will Theists (Eerdmans, 2000)
Most Moved Mover: A Theology of God’s Openness (Paternoster, 2001)
‘The Physical Side of Being Spiritual: God’s Sacramental Presence’ in Baptist Sacramentalism (Paternoster, 2003)
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