Areas Quote by 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

Jonathan Edwards is without a doubt the most brilliant mind America ever produced. I'm not talking about theologian; I'm talking about mind and everybody.…

— Rick Warren

“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

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

— 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

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

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

— Oliver D. Crisp

John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.

— Harvey Gantt

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

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

— R. Alan Woods

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

— Oliver D. Crisp

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious…

— P. J. O'Rourke