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Editorial: HypEr-Calvinist! (3) Rev. Martyn McGeown "The best known American hyper-Calvinists are the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC)." It is this scurrilous charge of Phillip R. Johnson, in his "A Primer on Hyper-Calvinism," that we are answering in this series of editorials (www.spurgeon.org/~p
Editorial: HypEr-Calvinist! (2) Rev. Martyn McGeown In our last editorial, we began to examine Phillip R. Johnson's definition of hyper-Calvinism in his influential on-line article, "A Primer on HyperCalvinism." We distinguished between a serious call (the Latin term serio in Canons III/IV:8) and a
Editorial: HypEr-Calvinist! (6) Rev. Martyn McGeown A Hyper-Calvinist Reader I had planned to continue the critique of common grace begun in the last editorial but recently a (real) hyper-Calvinist wrote to me to "correct" my error of duty faith and duty repentance.1 Remember that hyper-Calvinism is
There you have it. Calvinists, especially hyper-Calvinists, are the "Muslim extremists of the Christian world." Where would that then place us? What lies in store for those who insist on the scriptural truth of the sovereignty of God? Who insist that God then controls all events? Who insist that God
We have now found for the defenders of the well-meant offer of the gospel the original hyper-Calvinist -- John Calvin himself. (to be continued)
CALVINISTS AND CALVINISM Calvinism is that Reformed principle which fundamentally stands on the truth of the Godhood of God. Calvinism, as no other system of doctrine, exalts the absolute sovereignty of God. The center and unifying principle of this system is the glory of the Lord God Almighty.
In its classic, developed form, hyper-Calvinism denies that it is the duty of the Church to preach the gospel of salvation to all men and to, call all men to believe on Jesus CIirist. The gospel is to be preached only to the elect, and, only they are to be called to faith. The grounds put forward fo
"Hyper Calvinism" is a term of reproach and condemnation. It is the charge that a theological teaching which claims to be Calvinism has, in fact, so exaggerated and distorted Calvinism that it is not genuine Calvinism at all. The body of doctrines described as hyper Calvinism is accused of having go