Oliver D. Crisp Quotes About Arguing

Quotes about: Arguing

• What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have characterized it is much broader and richer than many of us today imagine. It is not just about "Five Points," and it was never just about [John ] Calvin's thought.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Trying, Today, Arguing

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Order, Perspective

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• 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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Crazy, Believe, Book

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Mistake, Book, Thinking

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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