… Engelsma demonstrates that this opposition is not so much directed at hypothetical Hyper-Calvinism but is aimed against Calvinism itself. Engelsma also shows that a non-use of the term ‘offer’ does not make or break a gospel preacher who is called to present his message to saint and sinner alike.
One weakness of the book is that Engelsma has not researched the works of his supposed opponents well, and thus, at times, unwittingly misrepresents them, confusing …
Posts Tagged Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism
… of the Particular-cum-Strict Baptist churches entitled Picking Up a Pin For the Lord, equates Hyper-Calvinism with High-Calvinism which he defines, following Andrew Fuller, as being “more Calvinistic than Calvin himself”. Of this teaching he says:
‘High Calvinism’ was a theological system which would appear to have co-ordinated two denials. First, there was the denial that God calls all who hear about Christ to believe in him; no man is obliged as a matter of duty to trust in …
Antinomian Hyper-Calvinism versus the Law and the Gospel:
A New Focus Interview with George M. Ella
Q. The 18th century controversy regarding Hyper-Calvinism and Antinomianism seems to have emerged again in recent years and, although your book William Huntington: Pastor of Providence has been welcomed by many, a few voices maintain that you have opened old wounds and should have let sleeping dogs lie. …
History of the English Calvinistic Baptists 1771-1892: from John Gill to C. H. Spurgeon
Robert W. Oliver, BOT.
Emerging Deconstructionism
This book is based on Robert Oliver’s 1985 doctoral dissertation. His title is misleading. It is not a history of the British Calvinistic Baptists but, as Michael Haykin’s Foreword explains, an analysis of controversies regarding communion, the use of the law and the so-called fee offer. These are discussed at an …
Letter sent to the English Churchman defending criticism of the Cromwell ‘Get Rich Quickly’ Merciless Slaughter in Ireland.
Sir:
Mr Spanner would replace my facts with his opinions. If Cromwell believed in religious liberty why did he outlaw the Church of England, rid Parliament of almost half of its reformed members (Presbyterians) and persecute Baptists, Quakers and …
… that until the late eighties in Britain and on the Continent of Europe, the issue of Calvinism v. Hyper-Calvinism was not a major factor in evangelical debate. There is much evidence to suggest that it was not even a minor factor. After 1988, however, certain orthodox Calvinistic leaders had a frightening vision of Hyper-Calvinism flooding evangelicalism. They took this as a sign from God, authorising them to make the combating of Hyper-Calvinism a major issue in their programme of …
… novel writer but ought to be limited to that guild. Although Iain says there is no sign of Hyper-Calvinism reviving, he yet does his very best to awaken the sleeping dog. It cannot be thought an exaggeration to say that he is provoking Hyper-Calvinism, whatever it is, and wherever it is, to show its ugly face. Iain throws terms into the arena without defining them and pastes labels on people without either saying what the title entails or why the person ought to have it. He suggests …
… My expectancy was dampened by Robert Oliver’s foreword in which he takes up his pet theme, Hyper-Calvinism, and back-projects it onto the teaching of Kiffin and Co., arguing that they were against it, whereas they had nothing to do with it, or rather, nothing to do with this modern controversy which is forced onto the churches, leaving havoc and destruction in its wake. This raises the question of whether we have an objective study of the three Ks before us, or are they being misused …
Hawker’s Guidebooks to Zion
Aug 24
… the Gospel to Sinners: 2, Banner of Truth, Issue 371-372 and his review of Iain Murray’s Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism, ET, August, 1996, p. 19. These articles laid bare the tendency to Socinianism in the British evangelical establishment and pioneered the negative re-evaluation of Spurgeon spreading through the churches which is doing nobody any good. ↩
… enemies (Rom. 4:5; 5:8,10), thus I cannot follow Oliver’s reasoning that this is a sign of Hyper-Calvinism. Actually, Gill is more thorough than either Goodwin or Oliver in depicting the relationship between justification and faith.
Oliver, quoting Gill out of context, claims that he went beyond Calvin and broke with Keach and The Second London Confession on the offer of the gospel. Oliver’s trouble is obviously that he cannot understand why Gill refuses to give offers of …
