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• 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.

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  Lying, Moving, Book

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• 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.

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  Book, Order, Perspective

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• How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

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  People, World, Founders

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• [John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter.

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  Writing, Heart, Matter

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

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  Years, Training, Today

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

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  Writing, Tradition, Very Good

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• Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

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  Reading, Air, Fresh Air

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• [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.

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  Christian, Prayer, Biblical

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• I'm sometimes asked about my productivity, which I find a bit embarrassing to be honest. I don't really have a particularly interesting answer to this question.

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  Interesting, Answers, Honest

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

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  Christian, Thinking, Church

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Oxford

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• 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).

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  Book, Issues, Tree

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• In the twentieth century the Reformed tradition was developed in several ways including additional confessions (Barmen, the Belhar Confession, the 1967 Confession of the PC(USA), and so on). It was also significantly augmented by the work of important thinkers like Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Jürgen Moltmann, Emil Brunner, Kathryn Tanner, and so on.

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  Usa, Important, Way

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• We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

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  Thinking, May, Tradition

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Today, Likes

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

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  Book, Writing, Issues

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• 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.

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  Mistake, Book, Thinking

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• Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not rubbishing penal substitution. But there are other options that have been advocated by Reformed thinkers of the past.

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  Past, Thinker, Substitution

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• For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

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  Reading, Punishment, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Taken, Views, Example

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• Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

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  Doctrine, Strands

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• Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

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  Government, Justice Of God, World

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• The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

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  Voice, Kind, Speak

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

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  Writing, Church, Today

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• 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.

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  Trying, Today, Arguing

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