Accounts Quote by Oliver D. Crisp

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

— Oliver D. Crisp

These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“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

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to…

— Paul Schrader

The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance -…

— Oliver D. Crisp

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

— Alister E. McGrath

“Zeal to expunge every trace of Romish superstition resulted in text scrutinizing and “arguments from silence” that forbade traditions such as the exchange of…

— Lori Branch

“The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.”

— Abraham Kuyper

In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works,…

— Oliver D. Crisp

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

— Chaim Potok

“Indeed, most mainline churches in the Reformed and Presbyterian tradition today either ignore or reject their Calvinistic distinctives.”

— Michael S. Horton

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