From Dordt to Today (1): The Development of the Reformed Faith

“In the beginning of the seventeenth century, Arminianism rose as a necessary and wholesome reaction against scholastic Calvinism, but was defeated in the Synod of Dordt, 1619, which adopted the five knotty canons of unconditional predestination, limited atonement, total depravity, irresistible grace, and the perseverance of the saints . . . The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism, and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.” “It was only...