Calvinism Quote by Alister E. McGrath

“Calvinism, as we have seen, starts from a double decree of absolute predestination, which antedates creation, and is the divine program of human history.…

— Philip Schaff

Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

— J. I. Packer

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific…

— Abraham Kuyper

“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God, to man,…

— Abraham Kuyper

“In short, Calvin has been given too much blame by critics and too much credit by fans. His real genius is to be found…

— Michael S. Horton

“Then suddenly—or so it seemed to me—in the past two years Calvinism began emerging as an issue everywhere. Perhaps I am just waking up,…

— Jerry L. Walls

[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,…

— Oliver D. Crisp

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

— John Newton

“When one contemplates the conquest of nature by technology one must remember that that conquest had to include our own bodies. Calvinism provided the…

— George Grant

Till 1782, I believed in the doctrine of Calvin: that is, that the majority of mankind were objects of divine condemnation and that their…

— William Godwin

Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws…

— Max Horkheimer

“Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful…

— Max Weber