Oliver D. Crisp Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• [John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy, of the sacraments, and of the way in which we have an in-built sense of the divine that we suppress to our great sorrow - these are all immense contributions to Christian thought. The same could be said of his commentaries, which are still regularly consulted by biblical critics today.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Prayer, Biblical

  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

• We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Today, Likes

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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.

  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

• 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

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

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Years, Training, Today

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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