Occupation Professor, Author Education Rice University Role Professor | Name Roger Olson Title co-chair | |
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Born 1952 Des Moines, Iowa Website www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/ Church Meadow Oaks Baptist Church, Temple, Texas Ordained Southern Baptist Convention (pre-1991 split of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship) Offices held Evangelical Theology Group of the American Academy of Religion Books Against Calvinism: Rescuing, Arminian Theology, The Story of Christian Theology, The Mosaic of Christian Belief, 20th‑Century Theology | ||
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Roger E. Olson (born 1952) is Professor of Theology, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States.
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Olson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and studied at Open Bible College in Des Moines, North American Baptist Seminary, and Rice University.
He is also an ordained Baptist minister. He is married and together with his wife, they have two daughters and one granddaughter.
He is a five-point Arminian and wrote a book (Against Calvinism, 2011) arguing for this school of theology. He also wrote a popular and widely acclaimed survey of Christian theology titled The Story of Christian Theology.
He is noted for a broad view of what constitutes Protestant "orthodoxy." For example, on annihilationism he commented that some evangelical theologians have "resurrected the old polemical labels of heresy and aberrational teaching" in order to marginalize other evangelicals holding the view (The mosaic of Christian belief, 2002). Olson is one of the writers who sees two "loose coalitions" developing in evangelical theology.
Olson coined the label "Pannenberg's Principle" for Wolfhart Pannenberg's argument (1969) that God's deity is his rule - "The divinity of God and the reign of God in the world are inseparable."
In 2015 he was named the editor of the Handbook of Denominations in the United States 14th edition.