Oliver D. Crisp Quotes

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• [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.

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  Christian, Modern, Theology

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• [Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

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  Teenager, Thinking, Tradition

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• God shows us in Christ what he would have to do if he were to punish us for our sins.

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  Sin, Christ, Shows

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

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  Christian, Argument, Sophisticated

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Leader, Historical

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• There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

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  Tradition, Living Things, Stationary

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

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  Christian, Thinking, Should

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• For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.

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  Thinking, Leader, Doctrine

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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.

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  Christian, Real, Book

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Believe, Book

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• There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.

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  Christian, Practice, Names

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• [ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.

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  Views, Usa, Serious

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

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  Book, Firsts, Thirds

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• The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.

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  Twenties, Different, Development

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• The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!

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  Thinking, Views, People

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• No confession is inerrant; Reformed Christians are supposed to be those who seek to be constantly reformed according to the Word of God - and that includes our confessions as well.

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  Christian, Confession, Wells

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• 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.

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  Keys, Numbers, Interesting

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• [I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!

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  Trying, Needs, Tradition

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• [ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

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  Hero, Years, I've Learned

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• These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.

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  Thinking, Views, Minorities

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• I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

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  Use, Research, Assistants

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• [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.

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  Book, Southern, Saving

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• For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

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  Reading, Men, He Man

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• I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged and papers are read. That is a real boon, and it is something I think every scholar or writer can benefit from.

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  Real, Reading, Thinking

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• The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well in early Reformed thought. Moreover - and importantly for our purposes - this view was not regarded as an aberration but as a legitimate position that could be taken within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. But that means that the Five Points aren't the non-negotiable conceptual core of Calvinism after all.

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  Taken, Mean, Views

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