Richard Lucas is a Resident with The NETS Institute for Church
Planting and a Ph.D. candidate in New Testament at The Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary. He has writen two excellent articles describing
the theological map of Reformed thought:
Source:
Perhaps the question has been posed to you at one time or another.
The appropriate answer it seems depends almost as much on the questioner
as the one replying. For those in the emerging “Young, Restless, and
Reformed” category, they might not realize that not everyone else
understands the self-describing moniker of “Reformed” in quite the same
way.
I have two goals for these blog posts:
1) to sketch out something of
the landscape of those who consider themselves “Reformed”; and
2) to
provide some historical perspective to the development of the T.U.L.I.P.
acronym in an effort to perhaps curb some misplaced enthusiasm.
Map of the Reformed Landscape
Here I’m merely surveying from my limited experience those who I’ve run into in the modern American Evangelical landscape. I also will focus on those groups most likely to interest readers of this blog, which is “self-consciously Evangelical, Reformational, and Baptistic.” My sympathies will become apparent as I don’t withhold my own biases along the way. Continue at John Samson
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