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The "lordship salvation" controversy (also "Lordship Controversy") is a theological dispute regarding key soteriological questions within Evangelical Christianity, involving some non-denominational and Evangelical churches in North America since at least the 1980s.〔.〕 The dispute spawned several books, pamphlets, and conferences. "By grace alone" and "By faith alone" are two of the so-called "Five Solas" of the Protestant Reformation (see five solae). While many Protestants affirm these phrases as Protestant distinctives, the Lordship Salvation controversy concerns what grace and faith must include, and what they must exclude, for a person to "have salvation" in the evangelical Protestant sense. The language of what must be included permeates the whole debate and is often transferred from the meaning of the concepts to the status of someone's experience: thus, "As a part of his saving work, God will produce repentance, faith, sanctification, yieldedness, obedience, and ultimately glorification. Since he is not dependent on human effort in producing these elements, an experience that lacks any of them cannot be the saving work of God." Related to the issue of what must be included or not, the debate also looks at conversion using 'accepting Christ as ...' language. This is how the term Lordship became associated with the debate, by discussions of various ways to accept Christ: sometimes 'accepting Christ as Savior,' or 'accepting Christ as Lord', was distinguished, and a debate ensued. This is reflected in various modern translations: taking a cue from Colossians 2:6 in the Good News Bible, which has "accept" for what is to be done about Christ. In the New International Version of the same verse the word "receive" is used. Thus, a common question was "do (or did) you accept (or "receive") Christ as Lord?" Whether this "part" is, or was, included, or not, became the issue defining the controversy. Given the accepting-as phraseology of the popular GNB of Colossians 2:6, and the receiving-as phraseology in the widely popular NIV of Colossians 2:6, an exegesis based on the NIV, for example, offered an explanation of what ''manner'' of receiving this was. John F. MacArthur Jr, in turn, taught that such a receiving was both non-passive toward Christ and actively submissive to Christ, offering this as a way of understanding the English idiom, of what receiving a person "as" Lord, really means. Yet the "as Lord" language was not the only metaphor of the controversy. In 1959, Eternity Magazine featured a twin set of articles〔.〕〔.〕 which ignited the debate〔.〕 and the use of the idiom from the titles: what Christ must "be." This asked what Christ must "be" to the one accepting Christ: must he "be Lord" in order to "be Savior," both, etc. Ten years later (1969), Charles Ryrie used this idiom in a chapter title, verbatim,〔.〕 quoting exactly the title of the articles in Eternity Magazine, September, 1959. This idiom, what Christ must "be", was used to derive and discuss the implications for salvation associated with what Christ is. One author, Arthur W. Pink (1886–1952), had already associated Christ's Lordship with surrendering to it as a sine qua non at the initial point.〔.〕 Therefore the controversy dates back to before 1959, to at least before 1953 in the case of Pink, and shows the subject's connection to evangelism. This should not be considered a modern issue, as Baptist theologian John Gill in his 18th-century work in exposition of Colossians 2:6 deals with an emphasis on Lordship. In 1988, John F. MacArthur Jr published the first edition of "The Gospel According to Jesus".〔.〕 By defining salvation by what it produces and what salvation will not fail to produce, (not only glorification, but good works, repentance, faith, sanctification, yieldedness, and obedience) the book not only heavily spread the extent of the debate, but the debate expanded in scope, from questions about conversion issues, to questions about what is also necessary, and who it is who does what, throughout the Christian life. Using surrender language in the gospel became another issue. Free Grace theology became an umbrella term for a variety of opposing or contrasting positions, sometimes arguing that Lordship salvation was legalistic, sometimes more opposed to it than that, for example, faulting it for not being specific about what degree, quality, and current visibility there must be to the necessary obedience.〔.〕 The controversy continues to be debated not only in discussions about all the gospels, but also in discussions about almost any of the Pauline epistles and the relationship of Paul the Apostle and Judaism, and the rest of the New Testament, as well as much material about salvation in topical studies, and in systematic theology. ==History of the debate== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lordship salvation controversy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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