Barry Callen also wrote Pinnock’s biography entitled Journey Toward Renewal.Ĭlark Pinnock wrote articles on several other issues including an annihilationist view of hell. His book Tracking the Maze dealt with the situation of modern theology and sought to arrive at a way forward, and The Scripture Principle, coauthored with Barry Callen, explored an evangelical view of Scripture. Most Moved Mover was his most thorough explanation of his open theist perspective. He also left open the possibility of post-mortem conversion. He sought to back this up from a Scriptural perspective citing examples like Melchizedek. He affirmed that salvation is through Christ alone, but he was open to the idea that people may respond to the light that they have. He said that it is misguided to affirm that general revelation can only condemn since God is the Lord of both general and special revelation.
He opted for a position known as inclusivism. He contended that pluralism is a major issue in modern theology, and that strict exclusivism is as well. In his book A Wideness in God’s Mercy, Pinnock explored the idea of the destiny of the unevangelized. He drew on influences from within Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Roman Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy. His theology centered around the Trinity, and it was both sacramental and charismatic. In this book he dealt with issues relating to the Trinity, Christ, the church, union with God, and revelation. In it he explored various aspects of theology from the perspective of the Holy Spirit. For example, Pinnock’s most thorough work of systematic theology may be his book Flame of Love, which was a 1997 Christianity Today book award winner. Though Pinnock was probably most widely known as a proponent of open theism, he contributed to many other areas of theology as well. He taught at McMaster Divinity College from 1977 until his retirement in 2002. From 1969 to 1974 Pinnock taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and from 1974 to 1977 at Regent College in Vancouver. Several years later, in 1965, he joined the faculty of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The dissertation for his Ph.D was "The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in St. Pinnock decided to go to England to study under F.F. He then was awarded both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard and a British Commonwealth Scholarship to England. Pinnock studied in the Ancient Near Eastern Studies program at the University of Toronto and in 1960 he was graduated. A pilgrimage, therefore, far from being unusual or slightly dishonorable, is what we would expect theologians who are properly aware of their limitations to experience. Feeling our way toward the truth is the nature of theological work even with the help of Scripture, tradition and community. So I do not apologize for admitting to being on a pilgrimage in theology, as if it were in itself some kind of weakness of intelligence or character. Pinnock described his shifts in thought as a pilgrimage: Even though he was brought up in Liberal Christianity, he later became part of the broad Evangelical tradition, and explored Reformed, Arminian and Pentecostal streams of thought. Pinnock once recounted that as a child he had little interest in the church. He grew up in a liberal Baptist congregation. Pinnock was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on February 3, 1937. He was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College. Pinnock (February 3, 1937 – August 15, 2010) was a Christian theologian, apologist and author.
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