Oliver D. Crisp Quotes About Theology

Quotes about: Theology

• [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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Modern, Theology

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• 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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Historical

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Thinking, Should

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Writing, Tradition, Very Good

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Keys, Numbers, Interesting

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Argument, Sophisticated

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• 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.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Taken, Views, Example

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

• That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Thinking, Church

  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

• Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Writing, Church, Today

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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