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21 " A basic presupposition of this book is that the Bible does contain an implicit metaphysical vision of ultimate reality—the reality that is most important, final, highest, and behind everyday appearances. That vision of reality has been called various things such as “biblical theism” and “biblical personalism.” Perhaps “biblical personal theism” or “biblical theistic personalism” would be good terms for it. "
― Roger E. Olson , The Essentials of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
22 " simplicity without oversimplification. "
― Roger E. Olson , The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity & Diversity
23 " The point is that if Christianity is compatible with anything and everything it is nothing. "
24 " People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong. "
― Roger E. Olson , Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities
25 " Arminianism teaches that all humans are born morally and spiritual depraved, and helpless to do anything good or worthy in God’s sight without a special infusion of God’s grace to overcome the affects of original sin. "
26 " The acids of modernity brought about by modern philosophy were just as corrosive for traditional religion as were the ones created by the new sciences. "
― Roger E. Olson , The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction
27 " Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments. "