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• [John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

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• [Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Tradition

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• God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

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  Sin, Christ, Shows

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• The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

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• It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.

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  Thinking, Leader, Historical

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• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

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  Tradition, Living Things, Stationary

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• I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

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• For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

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  Thinking, Leader, Doctrine

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• No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

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• The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

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  Christian, Real, Book

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• The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.

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  Crazy, Believe, Book

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• There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.

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  Christian, Practice, Names

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• [ 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.

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  Views, Usa, Serious

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• [John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

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  Book, Firsts, Thirds

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• There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks of theology.) This is often associated with Arminian theology stemming from the great Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius. However, the view was taken up by [Jonathan] Edwards's disciples in New England, who developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

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  Taken, Views, Example

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• Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

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  Doctrine, Strands

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• Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

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  Government, Justice Of God, World

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• The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!

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  Thinking, Views, People

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• Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

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  Reading, Air, Fresh Air

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• For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

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  Reading, Men, He Man

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• [John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

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  Writing, Heart, Matter

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• [John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.

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  Years, Training, Today

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• One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

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  Writing, Tradition, Very Good

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• For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

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  Reading, Punishment, Ideas

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• Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

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  Past, Thinker, Substitution

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