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Church History: The Church Council that John Calvin Rejected

24th October 2016

On October 23, 787, the last session took place of the last church council that brought together church leaders from both the eastern and western halves of what had once been the Roman Empire. Centuries later, one of the key Protestant reformers of the sixteenth century would reject what these church leaders decided. What brought church leaders […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Video Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, council, Eastern Orthodoxy, history, iconoclasm, icons, Islam, John Calvin, Roman Catholicism

Theology: How Free Is Humanity?

13th September 2016

How free are your choices? Do human beings possess free will? Does God determine your choices or do you? Part of the answer depends on how you define “freedom” and “free will”! With that in mind, let’s take a closer look at the notions of human freedom and free will. Does God Save People Against Their […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, PROOF Tagged With: Arminianism, Calvinism, free will

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 3)

8th August 2014

Did you miss Parts 1 and 2 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Where Did McAfee Find His Points in the First Place? Others have explored the origins of TULIP as far back as Cleland McAfee’s 1905 lecture. I find it highly unlikely, however, that this […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 2)

6th August 2014

Did you miss Part 1 of “Who Invented the TULIP?”  Click here to read it. Tiptoeing through (the History of) the TULIP The earliest name clearly connected to the TULIP seems to be Cleland Boyd McAfee. Born in Missouri in 1866, McAfee became a prominent leader in the Presbyterian Church. He moved to Union Theological […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Who Invented the TULIP? (Part 1)

4th August 2014

Chances are, if you’ve ever heard of the “five points of Calvinism,” you heard them first in the form of a flower—a tulip, to be exact. If your earliest awareness of these points was anything like mine, it began with the fallenness of humanity and ended with the security of the believer, with the most […]

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Filed Under: PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, church history, PROOF, TULIP

PROOF: Cutting through the Confusion about What to Call “the New Calvinism” (Part 2)

25th June 2014

For part one of this series on naming the “New Calvinism,” click here. A Trinity of “Neo’s”: Neo-Calvinist, Neo-Puritan, Neo-Reformed The relatively recent introduction of “neo-Calvinist” to describe the latest resurgence of interest in Reformation theology has muddied the semantic waters even more—but not because “neo-Calvinist” or “new Calvinist” carries too many different meanings (not […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, New Calvinism, PROOF, Reformed theology

PROOF: Cutting through the Confusion about What to Call “the New Calvinism” (Part 1)

24th June 2014

The mention of Calvinism may provoke revulsion or comfort—but it rarely produces apathy. “Calvinism,” journalist H.L. Mencken opined in 1937, “occupies a place in my cabinet of private horrors but little removed from that of cannibalism.” Mencken included these words in his obituary for J. Gresham Machen, a Presbyterian theologian who whispered on his deathbed, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, Calvinism, New Calvinism, PROOF, Synod of Dort

PROOF: How Grace Sets Us Free #4DaysUntilPROOF

23rd May 2014

The following is a portion from an interview about PROOF found in the May 2014 issue Towers Magazine, the campus magazine for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.   MD: How does your [PROOF] acronym relate to TULIP? Are you replacing it? TPJ: Well, it’s somewhat unfortunate that, if someone has heard of Reformed soteriology, it’s typically been described […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, grace, PROOF, Reformed theology, TULIP

PROOF: A Window to God’s Glory, a Mirror for His Grace #5DaysUntilPROOF

22nd May 2014

The following is a portion from an interview about PROOF found in the May 2014 issue Towers Magazine, the campus magazine for The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. MD: So, proof of what? TPJ: The focus of PROOF is the unassailable proof of grace that God has provided through the cross of Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, […]

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Filed Under: Blog, PROOF Tagged With: Calvinism, PROOF, Reformed theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Towers Magazine

PROOF: A New Book and the Noetic Effect of the Fall

12th May 2014

[Please note the addendum at the end of this post.] Ever since Adam’s fall into iniquity, our minds have been—in the words of John Calvin in his commentary on Genesis—“smitten with blindness and infected with innumerable errors.” The primeval fall not only stained our natures but also degraded our bodies so that imperfection has crept […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Uncategorized Tagged With: Calvinism, PROOF

Church History: How Christians Settled an Argument About Election

5th November 2012

:: Defenestration and Divine Election in Seventeeth-Century Europe :: By the opening years of the seventeenth century, the Reformation had turned European Christianity into a conglomeration of conflicting sects. The Roman Catholic Council of Trent drew a firm line between Catholics and Protestants by declaring that Roman Catholic tradition represents the final authority when it […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Learn, Video Tagged With: 30 days, Calvinism, church history, Dort, election, history, John Calvin, predestination, PROOF

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