This guide is intended to direct students in ST330 toward supplementary resources for their peer-reviewed final essay on the doctrines of grace.

These are resources that can help students better understand the historical context and biblical arguments for Calvinistic and Arminian views on soteriology. As students support their position from scripture and engage with the Reformed confessions and catechisms, these resources will help you better understand a Calvinistic or Reformed position and provide a fair representation of an Arminian or Wesleyan position. Whether or not students end up citing these resources in their paper, they will help provide appropriate context for the debate.

The essay requires students to respond to one of these questions regarding the doctrines of grace:

1. Is predestination conditional or unconditional? 

2. Is perseverance of the saints uncertain or certain? 

3. Is human freedom incompatibilist or compatibilist? 

4. Is human inability hypothetical or actual? 

5. Is grace resistible or irresistible? 

6. Is atonement governmental or substitutionary? 

Answers must be supported from scripture and reference course readings and the Reformed confessions and catechisms.