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Evangelicals Find Themselves in the Midst of a Calvinist Revival [View all]
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/04/us/a-calvinist-revival-for-evangelicals.html?_r=0Drew Angerer for The New York Times
Mark Dever, pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. tends not to mention Calvin in his sermons.
By MARK OPPENHEIMER
Published: January 3, 2014
For those who are sad that the year-end news quizzes are past, heres one to start 2014: If you have joined a church that preaches a Tulip theology, does that mean a) the pastor bakes flowers into the communion wafers, b) the pastor believes that flowers that rise again every spring symbolize the resurrection, or c) the pastor is a Calvinist?
As an increasing number of Christians know, the answer is c. The acronym summarizes John Calvins so-called doctrines of grace, with their emphasis on sinfulness and predestination. The T is for mans Total Depravity. The U is for Unconditional Election, which means that God has already decided who will be saved, without regard to any condition in them, or anything they can do to earn their salvation.
The acronym gets no cheerier from there.
Evangelicalism is in the midst of a Calvinist revival. Increasing numbers of preachers and professors teach the views of the 16th-century French reformer. Mark Driscoll, John Piper and Tim Keller megachurch preachers and important evangelical authors are all Calvinist. Attendance at Calvin-influenced worship conferences and churches is up, particularly among worshipers in their 20s and 30s.
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Problem: some Calvinism says nothing WE do can save us; its only the (random) help from God
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#31
Unless you ordered their lives so it would happen, created the life where it would happen, etc.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#44
Except that throughout history, we see countless people that are forced to lie in the beds...
trotsky
Jan 2014
#47
Unless God created everything as we are told; including the devil himself. And evil itself.
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#49
Can we? Does conventional theology really hold up? Can we be blamed by God for evil? Is it OUR fault
Brettongarcia
Jan 2014
#53