Pulished on September 20, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
The Five points of Calvinism.
You know the whole ‘5 points’ thing is kind of funny. John Calvin never had five points. While I really think he would have agreed with them, his was mainly an exegetical way of looking at what he thought Scripture was saying about some very important things. I think that if […]
Pulished on September 14, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
(A response to a friend)
I’m an Augustinian. Poor and ragged as we might be.
The essence of Calvinism is that the effective cause of the salvation of the sinner is the Grace of God, mercifully given in Jesus Christ, and not some pre-existing good found in the sinner apart from God. I appreciate your taking the […]
Pulished on July 24, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Five.
http://neiswonger.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-recent-spate-of-calvinism-part-four/”>Continued from Part Four.
“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico. In this conception there is no lessening of the dignity and […]
Pulished on July 19, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
First causes and second thoughts. (an answer to a friend)
Plato and Aristotle were the big “First Cause” guys. They wrote quite a bit about it in their books on everything from politics to metaphysics. It’s must reading for those interested. Aquinas was the main technical formulator of the Five Ways, or what we call the […]