I received an email recently containing one simple request: “Explain Calvinism.” I typed about a paragraph and a half in reply before thinking to myself, “Self, this is stupid. This has been done many times already, and far better than you’re going to do in a late-night email.” So I sent the inquirer links to my own answer and to some other stuff that ought to be almost as good:
- TULIP by John Piper [free audio/video | DVD/study guide].
- The Doctrines of Grace by John MacArthur.
- What Is Reformed Theology? By R. C. Sproul [free streaming video | DVD/CD/audio & video downloads/study guide | book]. As the title suggests, this teaching series is broader than the narrow area of doctrine that we call Calvinism.
- The Five Points of Calvinism: Defined, Defended, Documented by David N. Steele, Curtis C. Thomas, and S. Lance Quinn is an excellent primer on Calvinism.
Additional recommendations are welcome.
Update: R. C. Sproul’s series on Predestination (CD) is among today’s $5 Friday deals at the Ligonier store.
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#1 || 10·08·20··09:46 || Jeremy Weaver
“Calvinism would not be badly defined, indeed, as the tendency which is determined to do justice to the immediately supernatural, as in the first, so also in the second creation.”-B. B. Warfield, Calvin and Calvinism (1932; New York: Oxford University Press, Reprinted 2003; Grand Rapids: Baker Books), 359.
#2 || 10·08·20··10:18 || David
Jeremy,
I must be slow. I had to read that about four times before I got it. It’s a great statement, though, and really gets to the bottom line.
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