History

Some of the actual advocates of the Free Grace position are Johannes Agricola, Nicolaus von Amsdorf, Andreas Osiander, John Cotton,6 Anne Hutchinson,7 Henry Vane, William Dell, Thomas Boston, Robert Sandeman8 and Jesse Mercer. Its added contempo adherents accommodate L. S. Chafer, Harry Ironside, Lance Latham, J. Dwight Pentecost, John Walvoord, Charles Ryrie, Miles J. Stanford, Warren W. Wiersbe, Zane C. Hodges, Charles Stanley, Norman Geisler, Tony Evans, Ernest Pickering, Curtis Hutson, Bruce Wilkinson, and Erwin Lutzer.9 Its arresting abreast expressions are the Grace Evangelical Society, the Free Grace Alliance 1, the Plymouth Brethren, and the Chinese-American bounded churches movement. Free Grace theology, beneath this name, originated in the backward 20th aeon as a analytical acknowledgment to a perceived legalist corruption of the New Testament by Calvinism's Lordship salvation, Catholicism, and Arminianism. These advise that backbone in acceptable works is binding as believers can never be absolutely abiding that they are activity to Heaven. 110