About J. David Edling

J. David Edling teaches 11th grade U.S. History and Bible at Bradshaw Christian School in Sacramento California. He received his B.A. in History from Covenent College (2020) and M.A. in Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary California (2022). His research focuses on the New England Tradition and nineteenth-century Protestant Liberalism.

Review: Arminius and the Reformed Tradition: Grace and the Doctrine of Salvation By J. V. Fesko

by J. David Edling on December 14, 2023

In his work Arminius and the Reformed Tradition: Grace and the Doctrine of Salvation, J. V. Fesko, the Harriet Barbour Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi, makes a narrow yet explosive claim—namely, that Jacob Arminius’s (1560–1609) . . . Continue reading →

A Sacrifice for Sin Made by God to God: A Review of Benjamin Wheaton’s Suffering not Power

by J. David Edling on December 8, 2022

In his book Suffering Not Power: Atonement in the Middle Ages, Benjamin Wheaton, a PhD graduate from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, challenges the conventional narrative popularized by Gustav Aulén that Christus Victor was the prevailing view . . . Continue reading →