Michael Servetus: Saint, Heretic and Martyr (Part 5: A Defense of John Calvin and the Calvinists) (October 17, 2018)

In defense of Calvinists: A memorial to Michael Servetus John Calvin has wayward sons who still defend the execution of Servetus and Calvin's participation in it, however most Calvinists today admit that Calvin erred in the Servetus affair, and some Calvinists today are willing to admit that Calvin sinned and that […]

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Time to Cut the TULIP: Why the T.U.L.I.P. is a bad definition for Calvinist (August 7, 2017)

What is a Calvinist? Most American Evangelicals will answer that it is anyone who affirms the T.U.L.I.P. The TULIP is an acrostic for Double Predestination that stands for Total Depravity, Irresistible Grace, Limited Atonement, Unconditional Election, and Perseverance of the Saints—and anyone who affirms all the petals of this TULIP is commonly […]

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Bruce McCormack on Double Predestination is not the Central Doctrine of John Calvin and classical Reformed theology (May 19, 2014)

Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth, by Bruce L. McCormack Friedrich Schleiermacher was a Calvinist, and although he is known as the father of Liberal Protestantism for his definition of god as "a feeling of absolute dependence", he was nevertheless a Calvinist and John Calvin was his […]

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