Tis the end of the year, the time to reflect on what has been and
what may be. For several months I’ve been pondering a post on this thing
that’s been called Young, Restless, and Reformed. What’s good? What’s
bad? What needs to be celebrated? What needs to addressed?
For starters, it may be time to retire the name. As you may know,
“Young, Restless, Reformed” was the title Collin Hansen gave to his Christianity Today article on the first Together for the Gospel conference in 2006. Subsequently, Collin penned a fine book
with the same title. I stole the title for my blog (because “DeYoung”
fit so nicely into his phrase). To this day I meet people who swear that
I wrote the book Young, Restless, and Reformed. Even when I promise them I didn’t, they insist that I must have. Sorry Collin.
I think the phrase was quite clever. It had alliteration. It played
off of pop culture (The Young and the Restless). And it captured a mood:
young Christians eager to embrace this new found wonder of deep
theology about a big, sovereign God. But, over time, people have
wondered whether the young are getting older, whether the restless
should settle down, and whether Calvinist soteriology is the same as
Reformed. So the name doesn’t work for everyone. Keep Reading >>>
See also: The New Calvinism Considered
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