“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
“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
“[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.” ThinkingTraditionTeenager Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.” ThinkingMayViewsTraditionThese DaysReportsMinoritiesDeviateDeviantsMinority Report Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!” NeedsTryingTraditionAccountsDeviants 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
“Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.” WritingTodayChurchTraditionTheologyConfessionTheologianReformed Theology Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have characterized it is much broader and richer than many of us today imagine. It is not just about "Five Points," and it was never just about [John ] Calvin's thought.” TryingTodayFiveImagineTraditionArguingCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.” TraditionDevelopingLiving ThingsStationary Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.” ThinkingMayIllusionTradition 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
“The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.” WayFirstsMayDifferentCenturyDevelopmentStandardsConsequenceTraditionTwentiesConfessionSubordinatesWestminster Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!” WritingTraditionVery GoodTheology Author:Oliver D. Crisp
