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My list of Calvinists for the non-Calvinist « Churchmouse Campanologist:
"This post is in response to my Lutheran cyberfriend Dr Gregory Jackson at Ichabod and his readers.
Questions about who or what constitutes a Calvinist sometimes arise on Ichabod and, to date, I have been able to make only brief comments here and there because of time constraints."
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Interesting information about how Southern Baptist Convention seminaries are divided between different Calvinistic/Reformed theologies:
Seminary Fractures over Amyraldism versus Molinism Debate
http://tominthebox.blogspot.com/2008/03/seminary-fractures-over-amyraldism.html
Several inside sources have shed light on the developing situation at Southeastern. One student, who wished to remain anonymous, said, "Everyone in the SBC knows that we have one Calvinistic seminary (Southern), and two Arminian + perseverance of the saints seminaries (Southwestern and New Orleans). Here at Southeastern, we tried to find a middle ground on this issue. Most of the faculty and staff wanted to affirm both God's sovereignty and man's free will. I thought we had done that. Unfortunately, we still fell into two main camps that could not be reconciled."
Dr. Stephen Walsh, professor of systematic theology at Southeastern, told TBNN, "The more and more we discussed this issue, the more we realized that about 45% of the faculty and students held to Amyraldism (click here to read about it). Another 45% or so believe that Molinism (click here) is most biblical. Fortunately for this campus, we only have about 5% Calvinists and 5% Arminians, so they have to lie low when these things are being discussed."
Hi Bruce,
This type of thing is happening amongst evangelicals because of their abbreviated and non robust statements of faith. The young ones are very much attracted to Calvinism. John Piper for example is in vogue since he is a Baptist guy who promotes Calvinism.
Calvinism is the "in" thing amongst plain vanilla evangelicals.
I got two books of his. One is Desiring God and the others is Future Grace. It takes knowledge of Lutheran doctrine to detect that Piper is a thorough going Enthusiast, a Pietist Legalist. His hero is the revivalist Jonathan Edwards.
He has another book I have, Counted Righteous in Christ. This one seems to be benign and ok, I just read about a third of it so I am in no position yet to say much.
However, because these guys do not have the means of grace, as we understand it, they levitate downwards to mystical revivalism.
LPC
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