Quotes by Oliver D. Crisp

Oliver D. Crisp

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

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

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

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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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Quotes by Oliver D. Crisp

Oliver D. Crisp

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

[ 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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