Sentences with phrase «which calvin»

In 1990, Bill Watterson created a Calvin and Hobbes storyline in which Calvin is bullied into playing baseball during recess.

Even the order of right teaching which Calvin develops in the Institutes is designed to ensure the reader a profitable and fruitful encounter with scripture.

Second, and more important, the goal toward which Calvin hoped to lead the reader of scripture was not God's sovereign omnipotence but Jesus Christ and the infinite riches of God set forth in him.

But whatever may have been the relation between the modest system of private ownership which a Calvin or a Wesley allowed and the gospel they proclaimed, that which obtains between the high capitalism of the later period and the church must fall under the rule of the seventh and not of the fifth commandment, as a Hosea or a Jeremiah would have been quick to point out.

It was also, however, a time in which Calvin's influence expanded considerably, particularly in his native France.

This second aspect of his thinking developed against the all «important background of the life of the city of Geneva, which can be thought of as the laboratory within which Calvin forged his new ideas.

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THE OUTCOME: Calvin Klein dropped its pants as soon as Lululemon filed suit and hasn't had much to say on the matter publicly, which suggests a settlement is likely.

Calvin Klein - branded products, for example, generate $ 5 billion in sales a year, the vast majority of which goes to licensees and retailers.

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.

Twice co-founders Noah Ready - Campbell and Calvin Young will be joining eBay's seller experience team and Twice's technology will be integrated into the eBay Valet assisted - selling service, which recently started accepting used clothing.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

He even singled out John Calvin as using only the «literal sense,» which, he added, «is a great fault in this learned and worthy reformer.»

But, as with other classical figures Eke Luther and Calvin, Wesley reveals another side which is illustrated in his dealing with problems of chronology, his understanding of the biblical use of non-biblical sources, his judging of much of the Psalms as «unfit for Christian lips,» and so on.

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.

To appreciate the significance of Calvin's work ethic, it is necessary to understand the intense distaste with which the early Christian tradition, illustrated by the monastic writers, regarded work.

By this stage, Calvin appears to have accepted something of the agenda of the Reformation» Calvin scholars have spilled much ink over a tantalizingly opaque passage in one of Calvin's later writings, which speaks of his undergoing a «sudden conversion» at some unspecified date and place.

For Calvin, God places individuals where He wants them to be, which explains Calvin's criticism of human ambition as an unwillingness to accept the sphere of action God has allocated to us.

As traditional theology was a relatively well defined system, the same in certain basic respects — despite all sorts of philosophical and ecclesiastical differences — in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Maimonides, Leibniz, Calvin, Immanuel Kant, and some schools of Hindu thought, so the new theology which many be contrasted with the old is found more or less fully and consistently represented in thinkers as far apart as William James,... Henri Bergson, F. R. Tennant,... A. N. Whitehead,... Nicholas Berdyaev,... and in numerous others of every brand of Protestantism, besides a few... Roman Catholics.

Calvin traveled to Strasbourg, which was a city of refuge for Reformed people, and over the course of the next three years, preached and taught in three different churches.

In 1536, Calvin published his first edition of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, which was initially intended to be a short explanation and defense of the teachings and ideas of the Reformers.

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.

He argues that, for Calvin, all theological knowledge has the «practical telos» of «whole human lives of genuine pietas, which is to say, whole human lives of vibrant, graceful relationship with God.»

Furthermore, despite the emphasis by such theologians as Augustine, Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and Reinhold Niebuhr (with whom Schlesinger enjoyed a personal association) on the need to distinguish between divine and human authority, it is a gross distortion of all of their views for Schlesinger to impute to them the kind of relativism which makes the existence of God and the reality of revelation (the basis of all western religious traditions) so utterly irrelevant for public life.

Calvin rejected out of hand the possibility (which Thomas allowed) of a valid natural theology.

In modern history the work ethic was first given a great impetus by the Protestant Reformation, in which context Martin Luther and John Calvin argued convincingly that the great and good life was ultimately experienced not in the monastery or convent, but in working at one's job in everyday life.

These principles have a notable ancestry within the Calvinist tradition with which I identify: from the concept of sphere sovereignty developed by Dutch theologian and statesman Abraham Kuyper, to the Politics of the sixteenth - century German Calvinist Althusius, all the way back to Calvin himself, who spent the greater part of his career struggling for the freedom of the Church in a city where civil rulers dictated ecclesiastical policy.

how energetically Calvin, having first established what stands in the text, sets himself to re-think the whole material and to wrestle with it, till the walls which separate the sixteenth century from the first become transparent!

Unquestionably, the pietism which both Luther and Calvin resisted, tended to reinforce an individualistic view of salvation in spite of the fact that pietistic mysticism usually stressed experience of the Holy Spirit in the agape - love which binds the community of the faithful together.

It is Calvin who writes in May that year: «My very dear Brothers: the king has peremptorily refused all the requests made by Messieurs of Berne... All earthly hope is gone; they will be executed:»... let enemies do their utmost, they never shall be able to bury out of sight that light which God has made to shine in you...» (Ibid., p. 148, 150).

It looks like the response to this series has been overwhelmingly positive on the Calvin campus, which is so encouraging.

Calvin would go a step further and argue that some are in fact predestined to damnation from the beginning, which became the position of the Jansenists.

We do not find ourselves permitted by the Word of God, however, to advise a woman to leave her husband, except by force of necessity; and we do not understand this force to be operative when a husband behaves roughly and uses threats to his wife, nor even when he beats her, but when there is imminent peril to her life... [W] e... exhort her to bear with patience the cross which God has seen fit to place upon her; and meanwhile not to deviate from the duty which she has before God to please her husband, but to be faithful whatever happens [«Letter From Calvin to an Unknown Woman,» June 4, 1559, Calvini Opera, XVII, col. 539, in P. E. Hughes, editor, The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (Eerdmans, 1966), pp. 344 - 345].

indifference stopped short of the vigorous iconoclasm of Calvin, who claimed in the Institutes of the Christian Religion that the only images that belong in churches are «those living and symbolical ones which the Lord has consecrated by his Word.

«Sexist» music videos should be age - restricted according to a report by a campaign group, which has criticised videos by artists including Calvin Harris, Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus.

John Calvin (1509 - 64) wrote a vigorous refutation of this view entitled Psychopannychia, in which he said, «Our controversy, then, relates to the HUMAN SOUL.

Calvin established a theocracy in Geneva in which the Church dominated the State, though not without a long struggle to establish this control, and this temporarily resolved the tension between the two.

Which is why Calvin correctly states:

And it was this doctrine, in turn based on the doctrine of justification by faith, which made it possible for Luther and Calvin to say what it means to live the Christian life of service to the God of love in the midst of the tragic necessities of this world.16

If you want to begin to know which people Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther or John Calvin looked up to as spiritual guides, Augustine is the first person to study, and his compelling narrative, Confessions, is the best place to start to look into his life.

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

Calvin took it in the sense that Jesus did descend to Hell, the place of punishment, and that in Hell he actually bore the pains of Hell which all men should have borne.

The prestige and influence of Christian scholars probably never stood higher in all of Western history than during the two generations which embraced the lifetimes of Erasmus, Luther, and Calvin.»)

Moreover, Calvin claimed that true and godly teaching is not «cold, inane speculation» which «flits about in the brain,» but is rather «sincere, solid, and certain teaching» which «takes root in the inmost affection of the heart.»

2) Calvin is a man of one book, the Institutes of the Christian Religion of 1559, which contains the sum of his system.

But the real reason we can say that John Calvin was truly not a Calvinist is because he himself did not develop the system of theology which bears his name.

In the same century, John Calvin believed the book to be canonical, yet it was the only New Testament book on which he did not write a commentary.

«We shall never be clearly persuaded, as we ought to be,» writes John Calvin, «that our salvation flows from the wellspring of Gods free mercy until we come to know his eternal election, which illumines God's grace by this contrast: that God does not indiscriminately adopt all into the hope of salvation but gives to some what God denies to others»

According to Calvin, the opening of access to God by Christ in the Holy Spirit culminates in an invocation in which the children of God confidently cry out, «Abba!

The claim that the central idea of Calvin's theology is God's sovereign omnipotence, which demands our complete obedience and which necessarily entails the doctrine of election and reprobation, is misleading on two grounds.

There are one or two points of Calvinism which John Calvin is less than clear about in his writings.