“To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.” MindInterestingNumbersFiguresKeysAreasTheologyThinkerEnvelopes Author: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 nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.” PersonsMadeViewsInfluenceCenturyParticularSeriousEnormousUsaThinkerTheologicalNineteenth CenturyDeterminism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.” Has BeensPastThinkerSubstitution Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“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 or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.” WayImportantIdeasChristianNamesCommunityChurchPracticeParticularArgumentTraditionChristian LifeLabelsStreamsBelongingThinkerConfessionConstraintsTheologicalDenominationsLiturgyChurch Community Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.” ThinkingLeaderFiveDenyDoctrineInstanceThinkerMainstreamTheologianMarginsBishopsAtonementCalvinismTroublemaker Author: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 Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.” ViewsWillingImportanceSakeThinkerConventionsImmense Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.” WayImportantCenturyTraditionIncludingUsaThinkerConfessionTwentieth CenturyBarmen Author:Oliver D. Crisp
