Doctrine Quote by Oliver D. Crisp Download Open image “Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.” — Oliver D. Crisp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doctrine Jonathan Edwards Strands
[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 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 will, the… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[ 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 Copy Share Image
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind. — John Newton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But to return to the sermons. Edwards’s sermons are constructed, in general, on a definite model. We have, first, the Exposition of the text.… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“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 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 in which… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. — Charles Spurgeon 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 and liturgy,… — Oliver D. Crisp 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 and well… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have… — Oliver D. Crisp 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 Copy Share Image
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world. — Oliver D. Crisp 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 in some… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter. — Oliver D. Crisp 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 and papers… — 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 think that… — Oliver D. Crisp 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 theological stream… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology. — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
And if thy heart be straight with God then every creature shall be to thee a mirror of life and a book of holy… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of… — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
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