Chapter 1
1 . Augustine, Epistle 82.1, in Letters of Augustine, trans. Wilfrid Parsons, 5 vols. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1951), 1:285.
2 . Martin Luther, Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan and Helmut T. Lehmann, 55 vols. (St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–73), 14:1073.
3 . John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, ed. John T. McNeill, trans. Ford L. Battles, Library of Christian Classics, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960), 1:149.
4 . Speech act theory, associated with J. L. Austin and John Searle, flows from the “ordinary language” wing of analytic philosophy. Evangelical theologians like Kevin Vanhoozer and Nancey Murphy, and Christian philosophers like William Alston and Richard Swinburne, have used speech act theory to understand religious language.
Chapter 2
1 . Augustine, Enchiridion, ed. J. Baille, J. McNeill, and H. P. Van Duren, trans. A. C. Outler, Library of Christian Classics 7 (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1955), 389. See also 395, 400.
2 . C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 127.
Chapter 6
1 . See T. V. Morris, The Logic of God Incarnate (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986).
2 . Ibid., 106.
Chapter 8
1 . Calvin, Institutes, 2:921.
Chapter 9
1 . Sinclair B. Ferguson, “The Reformed Perspective,” in Christian Spirituality, ed. Don Alexander (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1988), 49.
2 . John Murray, Collected Writings, 2 vols. (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976), 1:82.
3 . Ibid.
4 . Calvin, Institutes, 1:527–28.
5 . Heidelberg Catechism, Q86.
6 . J. Robert McQuilkin, “The Keswick Perspective,” in Melvin E. Dieter et al., Five Views on Sanctification (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 153–54.
7 . J. I. Packer, Keeping Step with the Spirit (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984), 157.
8 . Charles W. Carter, ed., A Contemporary Wesleyan Theology (Grand Rapids: Francis Asbury, 1983), 529.
9 . Laurence W. Wood, “The Wesleyan Perspective,” in Alexander, Christian Spirituality, 99.
10 . John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley, ed. Thomas Jackson, 14 vols. (1831; reprint, Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill, 1978), 11:84.
11 . John Wesley, Standard Sermons, ed. E. H. Sugden, 2 vols. (London: Epworth, 1951), 1:267–68. See Wood, “Wesleyan Perspective,” 109.
Chapter 17
1 . Lewis, Problem of Pain, 122–23, 128.
2 . Ibid., 127. See also his Great Divorce (New York: Collier, 1984).
Appendix
1 . Carl F. H. Henry, God, Revelation, and Authority, 6 vols. (Waco: Word, 1976), 1:215.
2 . Ibid., 3:457.
3 . Stanley Grenz, Revisioning Evangelical Theology: A Fresh Agenda for the Twenty-first Century (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1993), 83.