Sentences with phrase «calvin did»

Calvin didn't have today's genetic engineering tools.

Calvin did not attempt to resolve the seeming paradox between God's sovereign justice and love and the evil in the universe, but enjoined a meek acceptance of what he found in the Bible.

Calvin did not shy away from the consequences of this teaching, namely, that the same God who is the author and fountain of every good thing in Jesus Christ created the bulk of humanity only to have them fall in Adam unto their eternal condemnation and destruction.

Something John Calvin didn't do.

The orthodox followers of Luther and Calvin did not always retain this christological focus, although most of them remained fairly close to their heritage.

Calvin did not, after all, see the Catholic Church as a Christian body but rather as a satanic one.

However, Barth felt that although Calvin's theology was basically Christocentric, he believed Calvin didn't apply Christ far enough.

Calvin did not think that all human beings instinctively worshiped the true God.

Frankly, any understanding of divine sovereignty so unsubtle that it requires the theologian to assert (as Calvin did) that God foreordained the fall of humanity so that his glory might be revealed in the predestined damnation of the derelict is obviously problematic, and probably far more blasphemous than anything represented by the heresies that the ancient ecumenical councils confronted.

The Anabaptists agreed with most of the ideas of the Protestant Reformation but felt that reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin didn't go far enough.

Often viewed as Radical Reformers, these Christians were convinced that the reforms of Luther, Zwingli and Calvin didn't go far enough in their attempts to decentralize power.

Only the clear and present danger of death legitimates the separation of batterer and battered — and Calvin does not seem to regard the ever - present life - threatening potential of such violence very seriously.

The things that Ruby says to Calvin do not belie any sort of fantasy or mystical relationship between them — this is all very real.

Not exact matches

With apologies in advance to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and online legal - advice company LegalZoom — both of which I have no doubt carry the best intentions and otherwise do good work — and, with an additional shout out to John Calvin, tracking startup confidence seems an exercise in predestination.

This wasn't because he thought the company had legs (he didn't), but because «Noah and Calvin are great minds.

«If a business doesn't have the resources to raise capital when it needs to, manage tax situations effectively, or execute increasingly complex accounting issues [such as] revenue recognition, then they could run into some serious problems,» explains Calvin L. Hackeman, a partner at Grant Thornton LLP, a large accounting firm in Chicago that serves both small and midsized businesses.

And, when she decided to get into fashion, she didn't just do some research, she met with «people in the industry who had created or worked at companies I respected — Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Calvin Klein, of the established players.»

«Coca - Cola, Cadillac and Calvin Klein do not market their brands the same way.

«Devastating news about Avicii, a beautiful soul, passionate and extremely talented with so much more to do,» said Calvin Harris.

I have no allegiance to John Calvin, one positive contribution he did make was expounding upon what is known as the doctrines of grace, i.e. the 5 points of Calvinism.

that sounds more like an interpretation if you ask me, something protestants should delve much into... do ur history... here ill help u, martin luther, john calvin n john locke

Yes, I truly don't understand why men who claim to be born - again Christians spend YEARS studying the volumes of Calvin (which is simply what a very evil man thought of the Bible), when Jesus Himself said that the Holy Spirit would teach us all things.

They never seem to have an explanation for all of the born again believers who do not know who Calvin is and who do not care, yet function just fine anyway.

Perhaps if he were to follow through on the thought patterns of John Calvin and Herbert McCabe, he might more freely acknowledge that transubstantiation can not do justice to the absence or» since I think the term absence is unfortunate» the provisional nature of Christ's presence in the Eucharist.

Yes, Calvin, MacArthur, Sproul and Spurgeon are their gods (although I DO gain from listening to Spurgeon's sermons).

The legacy of John Calvin invites us to engage our world, and instructs us in how to do so with integrity.

As Calvin's English follower William Perkins put it, «The true end of our lives is to do service to God in serving of man.»

BUT they usually don't seem to realize or want to talk about the fact that ideas have consequences, and that believing or not believing in the ideas of Calvin has a major impact upon our daily walk and the way we view God, ourselves, and the people in our world.

I did not mention Paul or Augustine or Francis of Assisi, or Thomas Aquinas, or Hildegaard of Bingen, or Luther, or Calvin, or Wesley, or John Woolman, or Friedrich Schleiermacher, or Karl Barth, or Walter Rauschenbusch, or Reinhold Niebuhr, or Albert Schweitzer, or Toyohiko Kagawa, or Paul Tillich, or Martin Luther King, or James Cone, or Gustavo Gutierrez, or Rosemary Ruether.

On occasion I have come into contact with those Christians (and I do beleive them to be Christians) who feel that CALVINISM must be the truth from Scripture... and they look at me with what amounts to almost sorrow when I tell them that I have no time for Mr. Calvin and his «Institutes»... here are just a few reasons why:

Calvin, for whom Job is a vehicle for communicating the transcendence and inscrutability of God, cites some of Eliphaz's utterances as if they were Job's, assuming, as did other Jewish and Christian writers, that all Scripture delivers the same message, irrespective of the speaker.

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

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?»

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.

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

Is Calvin still Watterson's — nah, I don't think so.

Augustine thought he understood the biblical message, as did Luther and Calvin and Wesley; but God has finally given it to us to know that all of them are wrong and we are right.

Well, it was a turbulent time in history, but Calvin's off - with - their - heads approach to theological orthodoxy doesn't do much for so - called Calvanism.

(And conversely, what do you appreciate most about Calvin?)

For those who didn't know much about Calvin, what are your initial impressions from this brief account?

Did I not know about the Inquisition, and about John Calvin's standing by with assent as Geneva burned the heretic Servetus four centuries ago?

What do you wish the rest of us knew about Reformed theology that's bigger than just Calvin, Five Points, etc?

He did experience some controversy with Martin Luther over the issue of consubstantiation, but even this controversy with Martin Luther — the «father» of the Reformation itself — only solidified Calvin's position of prominence in the minds of many.

For those of you who have studied John Calvin, do you have anything to add?

I personally identify as a theologian and minister in the Reformed tradition and usually not just a Calvinist (though I do love much of Calvin).

This statement has nothing to do with john Calvin, Calvinism, or the Reformation.

However, by the end of the year, the church council forced Calvin to resign his position and leave Geneva because he wanted to force church members to sign his doctrinal statement and articles of church organization (which few people wanted to do), and because he refused to serve communion with unleavened bread on Easter Sunday.

We did not commence our existence at the reformation, we were reformers before Luther and Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the apostles themselves.

God does not govern as Calvin and Luther told the pope — by infallibility and omnipotence.

The volume includes two additional studies on theologians who, although they hold quite pessimistic views on the nature of children, do not endorse physical discipline: the Reformer John Calvin and the 18th - century American Calvinist Jonathan Edwards.