The Calvinist International
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the Synod of Dort. Thus, I was not surprised to come across another article on its Canons. I am always one who is encouraged to find popular Reformed authors defending the Reformed confessions of the 16th and 17th centuries. In fact, if there is one document which defines […]
Our friend Michael Lynch is studying at Calvin Seminary and quickly positioning himself as one of the world’s foremost experts on Hypothetical Universalism. You can listen to a lecture he gave on the topic for the Junius Institute here. He’ll be giving another talk, this time focusing on Davenant, at 3:30pm (Eastern) today, and you […]
Michael Lynch is a PhD student at Calvin Theological Seminary, and he is doing pioneer work on Hypothetical Universalism. While the term itself has been in more or less common currency, the actual theologians and primary sources which espouse the view have not. Mr. Lynch is seeking to push beyond the 2nd and 3rd-hand commentary […]
The recent publication of From Heaven He Came and Sought Her: Definite Atonement in Historical, Biblical, Theological, and Pastoral Perspective (edited by David and Jonathan Gibson) has once again stoked the fires of an inter-evangelical dispute between “Calvinists” and “Arminians” over the extent of the atonement. Last month, Reformation 21 hosted a twofold review of the book by […]
We have noted before the surprising fact that R L Dabney seems to have been some sort of hypothetical universalist, and so this section of his treatment of the Westminster Confession and the nature and extent of the Atonement is quite interesting: Again, the Confession assets with most positive precision the penal substitution of Christ, […]
Speaking of Dabney and the atonement, David Ponter and Michael Lynch have dug up a fascinating historical debate. In debating the plan of Union between New School and Old School Presbyterians in the Southern Presbyterian Church, the two Southern Presbyterian champions R. L. Dabney and Benjamin Morgan Palmer engaged in outright hostility concerning the nature […]