18 thoughts on “Humble Calvinism: Series index”

1. We’re in this for the long haul… now if I can just find new copies of the Institutes for under $50 (the cheapest I’ve found them is at wtsbooks.com) so I can better follow along. Glad to see this topic and can’t wait to learn more as the series progresses!

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3. The Institutes for $28 ?! Can this be true?

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   Tony

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7. A quote on Calvinism, if you can verify the source. My pastor repeatedly “quotes” (but cannot provide the source) J.I. Packer as saying “There are two kinds of Christians: Calvinists and confused Calvinists.”

8. Could you provide me with a brief summary of Calvin’s contribution to the Reformation? Thank you.

9. DS, hello! I would say in a simply definition: John Calvin helped spread the German Reformation begun by Luther to France (which had not really experienced the Reformation until Calvin came along). Calvin is also the one Reformer who left immense verse-by-verse exegetical writings in his commentaries and the author of the most important codification of the Reformation theology (in the Institutes). Hope this helps. See the biography by Piper linked above for more. Blessings, Tony

10. […] on June 10th, 2007 Here is a series on the Shepherd’s Scrapbook blog called Humble Calvinism.  Tony Reinke is going through through Calvin’s Institutes  and A Life of Calvin by Alister […]

11. […] came across this little slideshow when I was looking something up on my good friend Tony Reinke’s blog. […]

12. “God is the decider and the determiner of every man’s destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual’s life, which is another way of saying “He is God.” – John MAcArthur

13. “I believe that by my own reason or strength I cannot believe in Jesus Christ, my Lord, or come to him. But the Holy Spirit has called me through the Gospel, enlightened me with his gifts, and sanctified and preserved me in true faith.” – Martin Luther

14. One more: “Those who have received salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him, who makes them to differ from others.” – Jonathan Edwards

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16. I find this “humble calvinism” ironic in title. John Calvin, in my readings, is anything but. His attitude toward his one town-one order methods and his self-righteous public murder screams of arrogance. I believe in predestination, election and so on (because the Word tells us), but I do not lift this man as an apostle as many “reformed” Christians do. He is best described as a tyrant. Spurgeon said “Whatever he has written lives on,” but so does many other writers works. Spurgeon made an error which lives in my mind…”He called Calvin, “The greatest man of woman born.” Last time I checked the Word it was John the Baptist.

17. Hello, Jonathan. This series is a celebration of the biblical teaching of John Calvin. We’re not elevating Calvin to the status of untouchable. Were saying how can we learn–humbly!–the content behind the reformed tradition. Calvin was a genius at piecing together the far-reaching implications of theology.

    Early in this series I wrote: “We are focusing on Calvin, but not because he was perfect. He had character faults. Calvin was irritable, distant and a bit cold (not unlike myself at times). Nor was Calvin infallible. At some secondary points in his teachings I must disagree. John Owen said of the patristic writers we should take the gold and leave the dung. There is much gold in Calvin, but not all of it. Would Calvin want to be considered an infallibly guide anyways?”

    But I don’t believe Calvin is the monster you’ve tried to present. His life bears many marks of humility (and especially in the prayers that flowed from an obviously mature Christian). During one of Calvin’s sermons on Micah he prayed:

    “Almighty God, our heavenly Father, seeing that since antiquity it has always pleased You to extend Your grace toward Your people, as perverse and rebellious as they were; and that You have never ceased to exhort them to repentance, but have always taken them by Your hand through Your prophets; grant us also Your grace today, that Your same Word may resound in our ears; and, if at first we should not profit from Your holy teaching as we ought; nonetheless, do not reject us; but by Your Spirit subdue and so reign over our minds and affections, that being truly humbled and brought low, we give You the glory that Your majesty is due; so that being clothed by Your love and fatherly favor, we may submit ourselves totally to You, while at the same time embracing that goodness which You have provided and offered us in our Lord Jesus; that we might never doubt again that You alone are our Father, until that day that we rejoice in Your heavenly promise, which has been acquired for us by the blood of Your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.”

    That prayer is what I seek! I seek to follow this example of humble Calvinism, and this series is a means to it. Blessings, Jonathan.

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