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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism. -- Chaim Potok
I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world. -- George Carey
I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things. -- Paul Schrader
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. -- Ralph Adams Cram
Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. -- Charles Spurgeon
Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark. -- Walter J Chantry
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. -- George Bancroft
To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things. -- Charles Spurgeon
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom. -- Alister E. McGrath
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. -- R. C. Sproul
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. -- Charles Spurgeon
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. -- Aldous Huxley
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. -- J. I. Packer
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable. -- George Whitefield
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject. -- Paul Tillich
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life. -- Abraham Kuyper
I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable. -- George Bernard Shaw
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life. -- Abraham Kuyper
To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy. -- Tim LaHaye
I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism. -- Austin Fischer
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book. -- Oliver D. Crisp
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about. -- Oliver D. Crisp
The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought. -- Oliver D. Crisp
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau. -- Oliver D. Crisp
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement. -- Oliver D. Crisp
I am not aligned in my thinking with Calvinism, neither am I aligned in my thinking with Arminianism. I have proposed a more 'Wholeistic' theology encompassing the 'both/and' in the context Objective Truth & Reality". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.' -- Martha Beck
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description. -- Marilynne Robinson
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant. -- Oliver D. Crisp
As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking. -- Bernd Becher

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