“[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.” Quote by 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
“[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 is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.” YearsHeroI've LearnedMy Hero Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“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
“How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?” PeopleKnowsWorldMaterialsDeniedFoundersIdealistMaterial World 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
“We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.” ThinkingStillsTodayConsequenceLikesPipers 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