Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine. — Oliver D. Crisp Doctrine Copy Share Image
God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins. — Oliver D. Crisp Christ Copy Share Image
[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager. — Oliver D. Crisp Teenager Copy Share Image
[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years. — Oliver D. Crisp Hero Copy Share Image
[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book. — Oliver D. Crisp Book Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of… — Oliver D. Crisp Choir Copy Share Image
I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes. — Oliver D. Crisp Christian Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way… — Oliver D. Crisp Bible Copy Share Image
These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though… — Oliver D. Crisp Deviants Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession… — Oliver D. Crisp Barmen Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look… — Oliver D. Crisp Book Copy Share Image
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free… — Oliver D. Crisp Book Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed… — Oliver D. Crisp Calvinism Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Adherence Copy Share Image
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer… — Oliver D. Crisp Believer Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Atonement Copy Share Image
The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive… — Oliver D. Crisp Aberration Copy Share Image
There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular… — Oliver D. Crisp Argument Copy Share Image
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived. — Oliver D. Crisp Christian Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life. — Oliver D. Crisp Argument Copy Share Image
We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion. — Oliver D. Crisp Culture Copy Share Image
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology! — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of… — Oliver D. Crisp Christian Copy Share Image
We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C.… — Oliver D. Crisp Consequence Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
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![“I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d2/oliver-d-crisp-12863_bible_i-recommend-doug-sweeney-s-recent-book-j_1302304.jpg)
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![“[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/79f/oliver-d-crisp-12863_conventions_john-calvin-is-revered-as-a-thinker-of-i_1850444.jpg)
![“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c33/oliver-d-crisp-12863_calvinism_the-expansion-i-have-in-mind-isn-t-the-s_1930588.jpg)
![“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8c0/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_the-book-saving-calvinism-argues-in-each_1428357.jpg)
![“[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy, of the sacraments, and of the way in which we have an in-built sense of the divine that we suppress to our great sorrow - these are all immense contributions to…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ef/oliver-d-crisp-12863_believer_john-calvin-s-treatment-of-the-person-an_62415.jpg)
![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
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