Sentences with phrase «calvin candie»

Seerveld, Calvin.

Holding to Sola Scriptura, men like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli led the charge against the Roman Catholic Church.

Presbyterian seminaries accented Calvin and the Reformed tradition.

Either way, it did not become a major principle of Calvin's understanding of the Christian life.

John Calvin managed to invert the lesson of the passage almost entirely: The young ruler, he claimed, had asked an inept question, supposing that one could secure eternal life through works, and thus Christ's metaphor was meant as an illustration of the impossibility of anyone fulfilling the requirements of the law, and of the need therefore for a total reliance upon faith.

While Lewis's remarks do not indicate any careful reading of Luther, it is true that Camus rejects a notion of «salvation by faith alone» on the grounds that it eliminates human freedom and, to that extent, would not accept the God of Luther, Calvin, or the later Augustine.

I mean, John Calvin really seem to enjoy torturous methods to get people to fall in line, and in his later years, Martin Luther seemed to be quite literally stark raving mad judging by some of what he wrote.

Both, we are given to understand, are possessed by the Holy Spirit, and the chapter of The Descent of the Dove that deals with the Reformation is especially strong in its passionate sympathy both for Calvin and for St. Ignatius Loyola.

He certainly drew the line from the Church Fathers, through Augustine, to Luther and Calvin pretty clearly.

But no theology, whether that of a Barth or of a Brunner, even that of an Augustine or an Aquinas, a Luther or a Calvin, or even that of a Paul, if he can be said to have had a theology, can take the place of the gospel itself.

I stated that Reformers like Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli «tried to reject tradition and return to the Sola Scriptura,» the Bible alone.»»

Say what you will about Calvin's theology, he was not for sale.

It makes a difference to a young person whether her jeans have «J. C. Penney» or «Calvin Klein» imprinted on the rear.

They were strict followers of John Calvin's doctrine of God's determining grace.

Calvin was furious and had Servetus brought before the Inquisition in Vienna.

Such was the moral, legal and political power Calvin gave to himself, though he never held a post higher than that of pastor.

The theological issues in a Methodist seminary dealt with the Reformers, by whom one meant Luther and Calvin, and with their contemporary heirs, Barth, Tillich, Bultmann, and the new quest for the historical Jesus.

In Calvin, voluntarism gets the upper hand; God is conceived as absolute will, and yet God is also said to love and care for humankind.

Sigurd Daecke finds anthropocentrism to be deeply embedded in Protestant theologies of creation reaching back to Luther («I believe that God has created me») and Calvin (nature is the stage for salvation history) and finding a twentieth - century home in the humanistic individualism of Bultmann as well as the Christocentrism of Barth («the reality of creation is known in Jesus Christ»)(see Daecke).

When John Calvin died, the reigning Pope, Pius IV, commented on him: «The power of that heretic lay in the fact that he was indifferent to money.»

Many others in Geneva suffered lesser fates under the rule of Calvin for their «impiety».

A man may be an expert able to pass an examination on all Christologies ancient and modern, but the real question is not what Jesus Christ meant to Irenaeus or Origen, Anselm or Aquinas, Luther or Calvin, Ritschl or Macleod Campbell, Barth or Aulen, but: «What does the Gospel mean to you?»

The verdict was carried out on 27 October 1553 to the eternal shame of Calvin.

In a book published in Vienna he made a vigorous attack on Calvin.

Jones's most remarkable feat is her wrestling of a feminist blessing from Calvin's doctrine of sin.

Cal DeWitt in 1977 sat alone in his office at Calvin College reading the Gospel of John.

In terms of witness outside the Calvinist circle, I think it's fairly naive to think that Calvin just made this up out of thin air.

Contra Calvin: God has NOT elected people to be «reprobate» and to go to hell.

They travel with her in the landscape of Calvin's doctrine and assess whether his dramatic account can make sense of their specific experiences of gender oppression and also convey an empowering grace that heals their brokenness.

Jones creatively links Calvin's descriptions to that of feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, who speaks of «the dissolving woman,» ravaged and undone by demeaning relations with others and structures of domination that surround her.

We are not to intellectualize in a way that removes our focus from the very practical concerns of tending the sick, caring for the vulnerable, participating in community life (like Calvin, who concerned himself with the sewage systems in Geneva) or voting, getting the car fixed, recycling old newspapers, making meals.

At the same time she questions Calvin's individualized notion of unfaithfulness, insisting that feminists must speak out equally against «unfaithful cultures» — those institutional structures and cultural forces that perpetuate the gendered bondage to sin.

Since conservatives comprise anywhere from 2 to 6 percent of faculty on the major campuses across the country, the fact that over 70 percent of the Calvin faculty chose not to sign the protest letter is stunning and should have been viewed as a positive.

Following Calvin and Barth, Jones insists that sin can be seen only with the eyes of faith, that is to say, within an economy of divine grace.

Now who's sounding like Calvin?

Insights from some of her heroes, like John Calvin and the Puritans, would help round out the picture.

Take for example his recent criticism of Calvin College («While We're At It,» August / September).

Was only Calvin no so depraved as to be able?

For Larrimore the medieval and early modern periods mark the rise of the Book of Job as disputation, with Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and Calvin as his chosen representatives.

I laughed out loud at this great comment: «Total depravity does not allow for anyone to read the Bible including Calvin.»

Sometimes I think that my patron saint is not Peter or Paul or Francis or Calvin or King, but Judas.

(I went to Calvin College and talked with him once after a concert, and he was working on an updated translation at that time.)

A few days earlier, on October 29, the Times reported on African - American ministers - among them the Rev. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, and the Rev. Floyd Flake, a former congressman who is pastor of the Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral in Queens - who publicly endorsed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for re-election.

He was recently professor of philosophical theology at Yale University and before that taught for many years at his alma mater, Calvin College.

Righteousness from God was the way Luther (and later Calvin) read Rom 3.21.

But Neuhaus calls the faculty protest «smarminess» and goes on to denigrate the «national prominence» of Calvin College, as if it is some rude, liberal Podunk institution looking for cheap media attention with a publicity stunt.

From just these six telling arguments I would argue that Calvinism is overcome»... but to question Calvin is to question only a man... Paul on occasion questioned the leading Apostle Peter so if you think it is out of line to question so august a name as Calvin, then you must not agree with Paul on his direct criticism of Peter either.

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You're exceedingly cataphatic, just of a different stripe to — say — Calvin.

So indeed, if Calvin's words about depravity are the truth, then no man can ever be certain that he has read and understood the Scriptures, including Calvin.