As many of you know, I’m a Calvinist, but a deviant one, as I try to be a nice Calvinist. I even did a Q&A on Calvinism if you care to watch. There is a clear Calvinist flavour in my Evangelical Theology, which I explain here.
Alas, Mike, I am trying to respect your reformed sensibilities........... but.....
heavens to betsy, what are we to make of a man who thus said-
“I am persuaded that it is not without the special will of God that, apart from any verdict of the judges, the criminals have endured protracted torment at the hands of the executioner.” - John Calvin's letter to Farel.
"..God would never have any infants to be destroyed, except for those which he had already condemned to eternal death..."
There were also over 60 executions in Geneva in which he was heavily, if not directly implicated in.
I may look on with anachronistic eyes, but blimey, Calvin seems horrid to me...
"Calvin tried to separate church and state, to render the state free from state control (i.e., Erastianism) and the state free from church control (Papism)."
I think there is a need to sort out "state" and "church" here :-)
I am an Arminian, Afro-Pentecostal theologian and I love Calvin! I find his work to be pastoral, exceptionally biblical and theologically rich. He seems to be far more irenic than many of my pugnacious Calvinist friends...
Alas, Mike, I am trying to respect your reformed sensibilities........... but.....
heavens to betsy, what are we to make of a man who thus said-
“I am persuaded that it is not without the special will of God that, apart from any verdict of the judges, the criminals have endured protracted torment at the hands of the executioner.” - John Calvin's letter to Farel.
"..God would never have any infants to be destroyed, except for those which he had already condemned to eternal death..."
There were also over 60 executions in Geneva in which he was heavily, if not directly implicated in.
I may look on with anachronistic eyes, but blimey, Calvin seems horrid to me...
Give me st Francis of Assisi any day...
"Calvin tried to separate church and state, to render the state free from state control (i.e., Erastianism) and the state free from church control (Papism)."
I think there is a need to sort out "state" and "church" here :-)
I am an Arminian, Afro-Pentecostal theologian and I love Calvin! I find his work to be pastoral, exceptionally biblical and theologically rich. He seems to be far more irenic than many of my pugnacious Calvinist friends...
I have shared this because I find it most helpful and largely unknown, even in evangelical academic circles.