“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, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.” WayNeedsTryingSaidBookEndsTodayOrderAudiencePerspectiveTraditionArguingDoctrineSavingScholarlyCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).” IfsBookSometimesDiesChristLosesIssuesTreeElectionWoodsSavedSavingScopeTheologicalAtonementDeterminismSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.” BookShowsSavingFree WillSouthernChaptersTheologianPresbyteriansCalvinism Author: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.” IfsWritingBookIssuesEngagedCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.” ThinkingBookMistakeArguingDoctrineSavingChaptersAtonementSubstitutionCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.” BookIdeasRealShowsTodayChristianRichesTheologySavingNo IdeaChaptersAtonementCalvinismReformed Theology Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.” LooksBookMovingLyingSpeakBoundsSavingBordersCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.” FirstsBookThirdsAccountsInstitutePredestinationInstitutes Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“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 Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.” ThinkingWayBookWholePressesUniversityTreatmentTerrificOxfordOxford UniversitySweeney Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.” ThinkingShouldBookEndsChurchShapesPressesUnityThought ProvokingCatholicismPeterEntitledProvokingFragmentedProtestantismThinking About The Future Author:Oliver D. Crisp
