Last week John Piper spoke at Westminster Seminary, and delivered the
seventh annual Gaffin Lecture on “The New Calvinism and the New
Community: The Doctrines of Grace and the Meaning of Race” (audio and video).
That may not sound like the most exciting lecture you’ve ever listened
to, but I found some time to listen in today, and found what Piper began
with fascinating (especially in light of last week’s Visual History of the New Calvinism).
He began by defining what he means by New Calvinism, and to do that he
offered twelve defining features of the movement. He was very careful to
stress that these are not things that necessarily separate the New
Calvinism from traditional Calvinism or make the new better than the
old. Rather, these are simply the markers of the New.
Here then, in brief, are John Piper’s 12 features of the New Calvinism.
1. The New Calvinism, in its allegiance to the inerrancy of the
Bible, embraces the biblical truths behind the five points of Calvinism (TULIP),
while having an aversion to using the acronym (or any other systematic
packaging) along with a sometimes-qualified embrace of Limited
Atonement. The focus is on Calvinistic soteriology but not to the
exclusion or the appreciation of the broader scope of Calvin’s vision. Continue at Tim Challies
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