… the production of the King James’ Bible. Overall is often made to wear the dunce’s cap in the Arminian Corner but his history suggests that this picture needs to be corrected. He followed Alexander Nowell as Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1596. Nowell was a thorough-going Reformer, more Calvinistic than Calvin on justification, election and atonement, who loved the doctrines of grace. Whitgift made Nowell’s catechism mandatory for all theological students and clergy, so it …
Posts Tagged Arminian
John Overall not an Arminian
Dec 27
… religion, affirming the necessity of personal, subjective reconciliation with God. This Liberal-Arminian ‘British Religion’ was seen as a patriotic bulwark against the tyranny of legalism under Napoleon. After the 1848 Revolution piety again took preference over patriotism and Dissenters such as J. G. Oncken and Evangelicals of the Establishment such as F.W. Krummacher condemned the British Liberalism from their pulpits which had served political ends in Schleiermacher’s day. British …
John Gill and His Successors
Aug 17
… work The Cause of God and Truth which is a treatise against the anti-Calvinistic teaching of Arminian-Arian Dr Daniel Whitby (1638-1726) and a rejection of the universal atonement theory, Mr. Murray picks out the words ‘coming to him, or believing in him to the saving of their souls,’ and ‘without the special grace of God’, which convey little meaning as they stand, and, without giving their context, fits them into an argument of his own making to ‘prove’ that Gill did not …
Prepositions and Voices
Aug 21
… God through the instrument of the baptiser and is all of God and not of man. The conditions which Arminian-tainted, Restricted Baptists claim for meriting baptism are irrelevant to the time of baptism and often to its purpose. Note the coming of the Spirit is prior to baptism in some instances and post baptism in others. In the case of the Eunuch, we are not told what the consequences were regarding repentance and reception of the Holy Spirit. In the case of Cornelius, he was baptised in the …
Christian Bennett’s Review
Aug 15
… reflect widely-held Reformed Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist Creeds and are even seen in the Arminian Orthodox Creed of 1678. If Bennett had read my book with more openness to these old evangelical doctrines, he would have learnt how my great mentor James Hervey fulfilled Ephesians 4:1ff in all respects and both my reviewer and I can do no better than follow him.”
Welcome
Aug 17
… that has proved highly damaging to the Church of Christ. Here it will suffice to mention Dutch Arminian Hugo Grotius, American New England Divinity pioneer Joseph Bellamy and his English counterpart and imitator Andrew Fuller. Of modern men who have led many astray, I would add John Murray of Westminster Seminary here, who insists that God has two conflicting wills and is unable to save those He wishes to save. Of course, the chance-philosopher and sceptic John Wesley must be added to the …
The Synod of Dort
Aug 17
… However, a modern rediscovery of the ‘real’ Synod of Dort is made difficult by the accounts of Arminian and Amyraldian authors such as Peter Heylin, Daniel Tilenus, Edmund Calamy, Bishop Tomline and John Goodwin, who have played havoc with the facts. These facts have also been distorted recently by fringe groups who unite the two extremes in the Synod and teach Supralapsarianism in an Arminian Grotian (Fullerite) garb. Sadly, the prevailing interpretations of British influence at Dort, be …
Review of Amyraut Affirmed
Sep 15
… and Kendall see him respectively as a fence-sitter in theological matters, an Amyraldian and an Arminian. Maria Faber even denies that Calvin believed in predestination!
Clifford defines Amyraldianism quite inadequately in Fullerite terms arguing that the atonement is sufficient for all and efficient for the elect. Calvin denounced such teaching strongly. Andrew Fuller, referring to the Death of Death, Book IV:1, mistakenly thought this was Owen’s position too, but Clifford, …
… to be aware of the great danger facing America at present from the British scene where the new Arminian face of Reformed thinking has caused far more havoc than in the States. The Banner of Truth’s present massive effort to have thousands of Iain Murray’s thinly disguised attack on orthodox Calvinism in his book Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism distributed free throughout the Southern Baptist churches by courtesy of the editors of the Founder’s Journal shows that they are intent on …
Most readers are familiar with the Calvinist-Arminian controversy of the 18th century in which free-grace, championed by Whitefield, Toplady and Romaine was set against free-will, maintained by Fletcher, Sellon and Wesley. The controversy dealt with whether salvation was made possible by Christ, depending on man’s acceptance of it, or whether Christ secured His Church’s salvation by His atoning death. At the same time, a similar …
