Oliver D. Crisp Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

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

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Firsts, Thirds

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• 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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Real, Book

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Lying, Moving, Book

  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

• Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?); whether we have to hold to some sort of theological determinism (God ordains all that comes to pass).

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Issues, Tree

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Thinking, Oxford

  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

• For those interested in Reformed thought more broadly, I'd recommend Peter Leithart's recent book on Reformed Catholicism entitled, The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos Press, 2016), as a thought-provoking and stimulating read that should get us all thinking about the future shape of the Church, wherever we come from.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Thinking, Thought Provoking

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• [Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Southern, Saving

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• [Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Issues

  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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