The New Calvinism in TIME magazine
Calvinism's back and is listed as number 3 in Time Magazine March 23 2009's 10 ideas changing the world right now.
If you really want to follow the development of conservative Christianity, track its musical hits. In the early 1900s you might have heard "The Old Rugged Cross," a celebration of the atonement. By the 1980s you could have shared the Jesus-is-my-buddy intimacy of "Shine, Jesus, Shine." And today, more and more top songs feature a God who is very big, while we are...well, hark the David Crowder Band: "I am full of earth/ You are heaven's worth/ I am stained with dirt/ Prone to depravity."
Calvinism is back, and not just musically. John Calvin's 16th century reply to medieval Catholicism's buy-your-way-out-of-purgatory excesses is Evangelicalism's latest success story, complete with an utterly sovereign and micromanaging deity, sinful and puny humanity, and the combination's logical consequence, predestination: the belief that before time's dawn, God decided whom he would save (or not), unaffected by any subsequent human action or decision.
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Labels: Globalization, Theology
posted by Alex Tang at 9:45 PM
6 Comments:
I wonder what the different between the Old and New Calvinism.
I think Mark from the Resurgence blog makes 4 distinctions between the Old and New Calvinism:
http://theresurgence.com/new_calvinism
Regards
Hi John and Eugene,
Thanks Eugene for the link. It is most useful.
Thank you Eugene, for the link...
I think i'm a New Calvinist
Hi John,
Good for you.
As i think again the "New Calvinism", TIME has in
mind, mostly, the Reformed movement within the Southern Baptist Convention. Not all New Calvinism are cessationist
it a blanket statement to say that all cessationist do not have the presence of the Holy Spirit with them. (ie Jonathan Edwards)
Therefore, I do not agree with Mark Driscoll with the categorizations...
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