Book Quote by Oliver D. Crisp

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

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

— Abraham Kuyper

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

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

— George Carey

“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

“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

“Calvinism furnishes us with the only theology of culture that is truly relevant for the world in which we live, because it is the…

— Henry R. Van Til

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

— R. C. Sproul

“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

“Salvation is not mostly a matter of relocation; it is a matter of transformation.”

— Rankin Wilbourne

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

“Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it…

— Philip Schaff