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词条 Zane C. Hodges
释义

  1. Life

  2. Theology

      Free Grace and the Lordship Salvation Controversy    Repentance    Majority Text  

  3. Publications

      Books    Posthumous Books    Key articles  

  4. References

  5. External links

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Zane Clark Hodges (June 15, 1932 – November 23, 2008) was an American pastor, seminary professor, and Bible scholar.

Some of the views he is known for are these:

  • "Free Grace theology," a view that holds that eternal life is received as a free gift only through belief in Jesus Christ for eternal life (a person cannot lose their salvation even by falling away from the faith).
  • "Eternal rewards," a view that various passages in the New Testament are not dealing with eternal salvation but addressing Christians and the opportunity to earn eternal rewards or to caution against their loss.
  • His position in support of the Majority Text.

Life

Hodges was reared in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and came to Dallas, Texas in 1954 after receiving a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College. He received a master of theology degree from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1958. He then taught New Testament Greek and Exegesis (1959–1986) at Dallas Seminary and was chairman of the New Testament Department for some time.

Hodges also served as pastor at Victor Street Bible Chapel, formerly The Old Mission in Dallas, for almost 50 years. Recently he was active in the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and the Grace Evangelical Society. He was the founder and president of Kerugma Ministries.[1]

Theology

Free Grace and the Lordship Salvation Controversy

In the late 1980s, Hodges and John F. MacArthur presented differing views over the gospel through various books, generally known as the "Lordship salvation controversy". Hodges defended the Free Grace position, which teaches that the free gift of eternal life is without cost to the believer, that it comes through simply believing in Jesus Christ. A distinction is recognized between believing (which results in receiving eternal life) and submission to the Lordship of Christ (which is part of the sanctification process). Free Grace Theology also teaches that once a person believes in Jesus Christ, they cannot lose their salvation. MacArthur argued instead for Lordship Salvation, claiming that the faith that saves invariably results in works, and that a true Christian would not continue sinning without remorse but would instead obey God's commands to do good works. MacArthur viewed biblical faith as always including the notion of surrender and obedience, while Hodges taught that biblical faith was the conviction that something is true.

Repentance

Hodges rejected the view of repentance as a "change of mind", holding instead the view that it is a God-fearing decision to turn from sin: "Repentance is the decision to turn from sin to avoid, or bring to an end, God's temporal judgment" (Harmony with God, p. 57). Hodges stresses that repentance facilitates faith in Christ, but is not a condition for eternal salvation, nor is it part of faith itself. "It is one thing to say that repentance facilitates faith in Christ—the Bible teaches that. It is quite another thing to say that repentance is a requirement for eternal life. That the Bible does not teach" (Harmony with God, p. 93).

Initially in his book Absolutely Free! and later in more detail in his book Harmony with God Hodges took the position that the process of repentance may be a preparatory step in coming to salvation and should be evident in the life of a believer, but eternal life is received by believing in Jesus, not by turning from sin. Hodges points out that the gospel of John, which he claims is the only book of the Bible written to lead the unsaved to Christ, never uses the term "repentance." In Harmony with God Hodges says there is only one answer to the question, "What must I do to be saved?" Hodges emphatically states, "[Pauls and Silas'] answer said absolutely nothing about repentance. Instead they gave the famous and simple reply 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved' (Acts 16:31)."

Majority Text

In 1982, Hodges published with Arthur L. Farstad an edition of The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text with Apparatus. The Byzantine text-type, or Majority Text, is considered by its advocates to be a more accurate rendering of the Greek New Testament, though the more commonly accepted New Testament text, called the Alexandrian text-type, which is used in the Nestle-Aland (N/A) text and the United Bible Societies Greek Testament (UBS), is based on more ancient New Testament fragments. Hodges argues:

{{quote|The amount of variation between the manuscripts containing the Majority Text appears to be significantly less than the variations found in the papyrus texts of Egypt. This is to say that any two manuscripts containing the Majority Text are likely to differ with each other less than any two papyri might differ from one another. ... [A]dditionally, many of the uncial (capital letter) manuscripts contain a predominantly Majority form of text. The Majority form, however, is much less well represented in the Egyptian papyri ... Is it possible that the N/A and UBS editions of the New Testament represent only an approximation to an early form of text that once circulated in Egypt? Where is the evidence that this kind of text really existed elsewhere in the ancient world? ... Perhaps the great numerical superiority of the Majority Text (80% in the minuscule manuscripts) is its own argument for the high antiquity of that text. All other explanations of its majority status lack real plausibility. Indeed, the predominance of this majority can actually be understood as the expected outcome of a normal and natural transmission of the New Testament manuscripts.[2]}}

Publications

Books

  • The Hungry Inherit: Winning the Wealth of the World to Come (1972; 2nd ed. 1980; 3rd ed. 1997, 4th ed. 2017)
  • The Gospel under Siege: A Study on Faith and Works (1981; 2nd ed. 1992)
  • Here Walks My Enemy: The Story of Luis (1982)
  • The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text with Apparatus (1982; 2nd ed. 1985), with Arthur L. Farstad
  • Grace in Eclipse: A Study on Eternal Rewards (1985; 2nd ed. 1987; 3rd ed. 2007, 4th ed. 2016)
  • Absolutely Free! A Biblical Reply to Lordship Salvation (1989; 2nd ed. 2014)
  • The NIV Reconsidered: A Fresh Look at a Popular Translation (1990), with Earl Radmacher
  • The Gospel under Siege: Faith and Works in Tension (1992)
  • The NKJV Greek-English Interlinear New Testament (1993) with Arthur L. Farstad
  • The Epistle of James: Proven Character through Testing (1994, 2nd ed. 2009, 3rd ed. 2015)
  • Power to Make War (1995)
  • The Epistles of John: Walking in the Light of God's Love (1999)
  • Harmony with God: A Fresh Look at Repentance (2001)
  • Six Secrets of the Christian Life (2004; 2nd ed. 2016)
  • Luke: The Life of Imitating Jesus

Posthumous Books

  • Hebrews: The Journey of Faith (2010, 2nd ed. 2017)
  • A Free Grace Primer: The Hungry Inherit, The Gospel under Siege, Grace in Eclipse (2011)
  • Romans: Deliverance from Wrath (2013) with Robert N. Wilkin (Editor)
  • The Atonement and Other Writings (2014) with Shawn Lazar (Editor)
  • Faith in His Name: Listening to the Gospel of John (2015), with Robert N. Wilkin
  • Second Peter: Shunning Error in Light of the Savior's Return (2015)
  • What is the Outer Darkness? (2016), with Robert N. Wilkin
  • Power to Stand: An Exposition of Jude (2016)
  • The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews (2017)
  • Tough Texts: Did Jesus Teach Salvation by Works? (2017), with Robert N. Wilkin
  • First Peter: The Salvation of the Soul (2017)
  • Spiritual Lessons from the Life of David (2017)

Key articles

  • "The First Horseman of the Apocalypse" (1962, Bibliotheca Sacra)
  • "Light on James Two from Textual Criticism" (1963, Bibliotheca Sacra)
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928161730/http://www.revisedstandard.net/text/WNP/ap_c.html "The Implications of Statistical Probability for the History of the Text"] (1977, in Wilbur N. Pickering, The Identity of the New Testament Text), with David M. Hodges
  • "Modern Textual Criticism and the Majority Text: A Response" (1978, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society)
  • "The Epistles of John" (1985, Bible Knowledge Commentary)
  • "Hebrews" (1985, Bible Knowledge Commentary)
  • "Post-Evangelicalism Confronts the Postmodern Age" (1996, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "Legalism: The Real Thing" (1996, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "Assurance: of the Essence of Saving Faith" (1997, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "Making Your Calling and Election Sure: An Exposition of 2 Peter 1:5-11" (1998, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "1 Thessalonians 5:1–11 and the Rapture" (2000, Chafer Theological Seminary Journal)
  • "How to Lead People to Christ, Part 1" (2000, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "How to Lead People to Christ, Part 2" (2001, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "Harmony with God, Part 1" (2002, Chafer Theological Seminary Journal)
  • "Harmony with God, Part 2" (2002, Chafer Theological Seminary Journal)
  • "Harmony with God, Part 3" (2003, Chafer Theological Seminary Journal)
  • "Regeneration: A New Covenant Blessing" (2005, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)
  • "Justification: A New Covenant Blessing" (2006, Journal of the Grace Evangelical Society)

References

1. ^Legacy.com, Dallas Morning News. (Dallas, Texas). November 29, 2008.
2. ^Zane Hodges & Earl Radmacher, The NIV Reconsidered: A Fresh Look at a Popular Translation, 1990, pp. 136, 137, 143, 144

External links

  • James A. Borland: "Memorials", Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 52 (2009), pp. 213f.
  • Eunaka Kirby: [https://web.archive.org/web/20101006022219/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/obituaries/stories/DN-hodgesobit_29met.ART.State.Edition2.4a4724f.html "Zane C. Hodges: New Testament scholar, speaker, author"], The Dallas Morning News, November 29, 2008.
  • "Zane Hodges", Wheaton History A to Z, Alumni.
  • Audio messages by Zane Hodges
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