Quotes from Roger E. Olson

simplicity without oversimplification.

The point is that if Christianity is compatible with anything and everything it is nothing.

People who say that Calvinists teach predestination and deny free will, and that Arminians deny predestination and teach free will are simply wrong.

Arius of Alexandria denied the ontological deity of Jesus Christ and was excommunicated by the Council of Nicea in 325. His heresy, Arianism, was a bit different from Paul of Samosata's, but both denied the deity

Ritschl taught that when Christians affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, they mean that Jesus Christ has the value of God for them. Jesus was the inaugurator of the kingdom of God, which is God's highest good. Because Jesus' life was unequaled in devotion to the kingdom of God, he has the value of God. God realized his highest good in the man

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.

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.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.