Calvinism: Still Changing the World
Here's something interesting from Time Magazine: 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now. Why is it interesting? Calvinism appears in the number three spot. Here's an excerpt . . .
Calvinism, cousin to the Reformation's other pillar, Lutheranism, is a bit less dour than its critics claim: it offers a rock-steady deity who orchestrates absolutely everything, including illness (or home foreclosure!), by a logic we may not understand but don't have to second-guess. Our satisfaction — and our purpose — is fulfilled simply by "glorifying" him. In the 1700s, Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards invested Calvinism with a rapturous near mysticism. Yet it was soon overtaken in the U.S. by movements like Methodism that were more impressed with human will. Calvinist-descended liberal bodies like the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) discovered other emphases, while Evangelicalism's loss of appetite for rigid doctrine — and the triumph of that friendly, fuzzy Jesus — seemed to relegate hard-core Reformed preaching (Reformed operates as a loose synonym for Calvinist) to a few crotchety Southern churches.
No more. Neo-Calvinist ministers and authors don't operate quite on a Rick Warren scale. But, notes Ted Olsen, a managing editor at Christianity Today, "everyone knows where the energy and the passion are in the Evangelical world" — with the pioneering new-Calvinist John Piper of Minneapolis, Seattle's pugnacious Mark Driscoll and Albert Mohler, head of the Southern Seminary of the huge Southern Baptist Convention. The Calvinist-flavored ESV Study Bible sold out its first printing, and Reformed blogs like Between Two Worlds are among cyber-Christendom's hottest links.
Labels: Reformation
posted by The Catechizer | 6:10 AM
2 Comments:
hey Catechizer...I note you enjoy a good cigar. I read your Erskine blog about Thus Think & Smoke Tobacco.
I have a brass humidor emblazoned with...And when the smoke ascends...stanza in enamel & reposse.
I'm listing the pup on ebay. The seller is kinderarten.
mreguy424@gmail.com
I plead guilty, Buckaroo. I'm of the mind that the naughty foreign weed is among God's finest gifts, and what better place to hold the Indian weed than in a good humidor properly inscribed? I found it on eBay and must say it is amazing! I know who ever buys it will display it proudly. Thanks for letting me know.
--Shawn
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