cage state | noun | demonstrating wild and possibly deranged excitement over the seventeenth century pronouncements of the Synod of the Canons of Dordt in the Netherlands. These pronouncements are often referred to as the five points of Calvinism and, once a person becomes convinced that these five points are true, he or she enters [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Calvinism’
21 Mar
Success? According to Whom?
Carl Trueman:
The real proof of the revival of interest in Reformed theology and its impact within the churches will not be the emergence of charismatic leaders; surely it will be that, over time, these charismatic leaders will fade in comparison to the Spirit-called and constituted church herself and above all to the Lord Jesus Christ [...]
10 Jul
One Point: God Saves Sinners
J. I. Packer:
The very act of setting out Calvinistic soteriology [the doctrine of salvation] in the form of five disctinct points (a number due, as we saw, merely to the fact that there were five Arminian points for the Synod of Dort to answer tends to obscure the organic character of Calvinistic thought on this [...]
