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Redemption Accomplished & Applied
Book by Bowdle, Donald W.
120 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1981
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April 12, 2023
I thoroughly enjoyed Bowdle’s short theological work. His writing was clear and concise. Each point was made well and explained thoroughly. And he even managed to avoid the theological pitfall of droning on and on for the sake of that “thoroughness”.
However, I must confess that I do find fault with the book. It was only by his admission that I was able to discern his Pentecostal beliefs. Everything seemed to be a regurgitation of reformed theology. Even the vast majority of his sources and reference points were reformers, magisterial and otherwise. (In the opening of chapter four, he even inserts a direct, word-for-word, quote from Hodge’s Systematic Theology without quoting it as such.)
It seems to me that this book is slightly removed from being either Finished Work Pentecostalism or Wesleyan-Holiness Pentecostalism. I am not advocating for a blatant disregard, or willful amnesia, concerning the theological foundations of the past, I am simply begging for a distinctively Pentecostal Systematic Theology.
However, I must confess that I do find fault with the book. It was only by his admission that I was able to discern his Pentecostal beliefs. Everything seemed to be a regurgitation of reformed theology. Even the vast majority of his sources and reference points were reformers, magisterial and otherwise. (In the opening of chapter four, he even inserts a direct, word-for-word, quote from Hodge’s Systematic Theology without quoting it as such.)
It seems to me that this book is slightly removed from being either Finished Work Pentecostalism or Wesleyan-Holiness Pentecostalism. I am not advocating for a blatant disregard, or willful amnesia, concerning the theological foundations of the past, I am simply begging for a distinctively Pentecostal Systematic Theology.
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