James R. Rogers has written a post for First Things entitled “Credit the Calvinists,” in which he asks why Calvinists are thought of in terms of the doctrine of predestination and not Lutherans, who ...
I regret digging deeper into the Calvinist doctrines of predestination and limited atonement. It boggles my mind how anybody can call this Biblical. After all, these doctrines violate Bible verses ...
When I was in graduate school, I wryly referred to myself as the most Reformed living human since John Calvin. To my surprise, this assertion did not win me friends or influence people. A cradle ...
Catholic apologist Joe Heschmeyer joins Thomas Graf to help a caller navigate tough conversations with Calvinists about salvation. Do Catholics believe in predestination? Can you lose your salvation?
On the face of it, it does not seem difficult to state the contradictions that beset a doctrine of predestination. An absolute sense that God determines the outcome of our lives cuts the nerve of ...
An interview with author James K.A. Smith: Calvinism, as you say in the intro to the book, seems to be hip again. Time Magazine recently named Calvinism as one of “10 ideas changing the world right ...
The Protestant revolt did not just bring about a change in the religious life of Europe, but had severe and long-lasting consequences in the political, social and economic life as well. The entrance ...
The doctrine of predestination is at the heart of the Reformed message, but almost every tradition has to wrestle with the thorny questions of divine and human agency, as have home-grown religious ...