Comments on: Re-thinking Calvin and the “Calvinists” http://www.meetthepuritans.com/2009/09/02/re-thinking-calvin-and-the-calvinists/ It's a Seventeenth Century World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:12:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Nuno Fonseca http://www.meetthepuritans.com/2009/09/02/re-thinking-calvin-and-the-calvinists/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Nuno Fonseca Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:18:52 +0000 http://www.meetthepuritans.com/?p=330#comment-46 Wow, this blog will be most useful if it keeps fighting the oversimplification of Reformed theology, like it does in posts such as these. The truth is - most of modernist calvinists would be shocked if they read some of Calvin's language in his commentaries regarding the atonement, regeneration, sanctification and grace - common and special. But since people have gotten used to read second-hand scholarship, they would deny that the Reformed faith is rich in its manifold interpretations of subjects like soterology, election, predestination, ecclesiology, etc. Both the 3 Forms of Unity and the WCF are not Trentic dogmas; rather, they represent a consensus among Reformed theologians from many nations and perspectives - many of whom would heartily disagree, but still revered the unity of the Church in the minds of believers more than their own agendas and personal theologies - no matter how right they might have been. REFORMATA ET SEMPER REFORMANDA, Nuno Fonseca. Wow, this blog will be most useful if it keeps fighting the oversimplification of Reformed theology, like it does in posts such as these.

The truth is – most of modernist calvinists would be shocked if they read some of Calvin’s language in his commentaries regarding the atonement, regeneration, sanctification and grace – common and special. But since people have gotten used to read second-hand scholarship, they would deny that the Reformed faith is rich in its manifold interpretations of subjects like soterology, election, predestination, ecclesiology, etc.

Both the 3 Forms of Unity and the WCF are not Trentic dogmas; rather, they represent a consensus among Reformed theologians from many nations and perspectives – many of whom would heartily disagree, but still revered the unity of the Church in the minds of believers more than their own agendas and personal theologies – no matter how right they might have been.

REFORMATA ET SEMPER REFORMANDA,
Nuno Fonseca.

]]> By: Five Stalks of Tulips {3 September 2009} — Reformed Wretch http://www.meetthepuritans.com/2009/09/02/re-thinking-calvin-and-the-calvinists/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Five Stalks of Tulips {3 September 2009} — Reformed Wretch Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:10:03 +0000 http://www.meetthepuritans.com/?p=330#comment-24 [...] Re-thinking Calvin and the “Calvinists” at the blog Meet the Puritans, a collaborative effort by Danny Hyde, Mark Jones, and Rowland Ward. [...] [...] Re-thinking Calvin and the “Calvinists” at the blog Meet the Puritans, a collaborative effort by Danny Hyde, Mark Jones, and Rowland Ward. [...]

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