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Those Five New Points of Calvinism
2009-08-26 18:23:00 Almost everyone reading my blog is familiar with the acrostic TULIP as standing for the five points of Calvinism. Probably most of you know what each point stands for: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints. Then the number goes down as to who knows what each point means. I ...
Contemplating the Cross: Christ Our Passover Lamb
2009-04-10 15:00:00 For the next few days, I’ll be posting excerpts from Nancy Guthrie’s Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross: Experiencing the Passion and Power of Easter (Crossway). Join me as I aim to contemplate the cross this passion week. Today’s meditation is by John Calvin, from chapter 17 “Blood and Water” (pg. 103-104 of Jesus, Keep ...
Everybody Wants Kung Fu Fighting
2008-03-11 06:39:00 The ’slain in the Spirit’ phenomenon is new and strange to me even though I had spent some time in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement years ago. I can say for sure that I didn’t witness it before and it was only recently that I’ve been seeing more and more of it being practised in churches. What is ...
By: Joie de Vivre
Calvin on Fundamental Doctrines
2008-03-04 21:16:00 In reading through Nine Mark’s e-journal on fundamentalism, I came across an audio lecture by Iain Murray (editor of Banner of Truth) on George Whitefield and Catholicity. Catholicity refers to a spirit of unity among the universal (i.e. Catholic) church, and not in any way to the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. The lecture ...
The Underappreciated Calvin
2008-01-25 11:10:00 Loved by many, yet hated by more. John Calvin, the great Reformer, has bequeathed us a schizophrenic legacy. He is remembered largely for the movement which carries his name: Calvinism. Predestination, cold hard logic, spiritual deadness, fatalists. This is how many view Calvinists today. Sure there are some who earn such descriptors, yet the historical ...
John Calvin?s Gospel Message
2007-10-10 03:08:00 My regular readers have probably noticed that my posts come in themes (you might want to call them “topics”). The most recent theme has been John Calvin. Here’s a secret: most of my themes pertain to whatever I am studying at the moment. I have been writing a paper about Calvin for a Church History course. As ...
By: Prudent Musings
Paul Helm: John Calvin's Ideas
2007-04-20 09:06:00 Paul Helm, John Calvin?s Ideas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 438 pp. (review copy courtesy of Oxford UP)Paul Helm is a leading authority in the philosophy of religion, as well as a historian of early Protestant thought. In John Calvin?s Ideas, Helm brings these two fields together in an engaging philosophical account of Calvin?s thought.Throughout the 20th century, Calvin scholars tended to exaggerate the distance between Calvin and his medieval background. Thus Calvin was often portrayed as an anti-scholastic thinker, or as an anti-philosophical biblicist, or even as a proto-Barthian ?theologian of the Word.? Recent Calvin scholarship has gone a long way towards dismantling such interpretations, and the best scholarship (e.g. that of Richard Muller) has foregrounded Calvin?s complex relationships to medieval thought on the one hand, and to later Protestant scholasticism on the other. Paul Helm builds on this recent approach to Calvin, and, focusing especially on the cont... |
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