Book Quote by Oliver D. Crisp

[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

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

— Oliver D. Crisp

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality…

— H. Norman Gardiner

“Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply…

— Matthew Paul Turner

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“It would be a serious mistake to think of Billy Graham or any other television revivalist as a latter-day Jonathan Edwards or Charles Finney.…

— Neil Postman

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“I suspect Dr. Robert L. Webb may be theologically a 'hyper-Calvinist' of the Jesse Mercer persuasion." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

“At the heart of the Reformation message was a rejection of the power of individual believers, or of the church acting on their behalf,…

— Michael Braddick