The New Calvinism is not the Old Calvinism
We can be sure of that thanks to Jared Oliphint:
Twelve Thirteen 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 (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.
1. The Old Calvinism begins with the doctrine of Scripture summarized in confessions like the Westminster Confession of Faith and is willing to use TULIP as a handle for understanding Calvinist soteriology. Old Calvinism also relies on systematic thought.
2. The New Calvinism embraces the sovereignty of God in salvation, and in all the affairs of life in history, including evil and suffering.
2. The Old Calvinism affirms divine sovereignty in everything, even in Christ’s death on the cross for the elect.
3. The New Calvinism has a strong complementarian flavor as opposed to egalitarian, with an emphasis on the flourishing of men and women in relationships where men embrace a call to robust, humble, Christ-like servant leadership.
3. The Old Calvinism follows biblical teaching on male ordination and refuses to describe human life this side of glory as flourishing.
4. The New Calvinism leans toward being culture-affirming rather than culture-denying, while holding fast to some very culturally alien positions, like positions on same-sex practice and abortion.
4. The Old Calvinism understands salvation to be distinct from culture, hence Old Calvinists’ belief that deceased saints are saved even though they no longer inhabit a culture.
5. The New Calvinism embraces the essential place of the local church. It is led mainly by pastors, has a vibrant church-planting bent, produces widely-sung worship music, and exalts the preached word as central to the work of God locally and globally.
5. The Old Calvinism does not exist apart from congregations where the marks of the church are evident and which are part of regional, national, and ecumenical assemblies.
6. The New Calvinism is aggressively mission-driven, including missional impact on social evils, evangelistic impact on personal networks, and missionary impact on unreached peoples of the world.
6. The Old Calvinism actually calls and supports home and foreign missionaries through assemblies of presbyters that oversee such ministry.
7. The New Calvinism is inter-denominational with a strong (some would say oxymoronic) Baptistic element.
7. The Old Calvinism is Reformed Protestant and seeks fraternal relations with communions of like faith and practice.
8. The New Calvinism includes charismatics and non-charismatics.
8. The Old Calvinism excludes charismatics because Old Calvinists believe in the sufficiency of Scripture.
For the rest of this fine list, see:
http://oldlife.org/2014/03/new-calvinism-old-calvinism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-calvinism-old-calvinism
1.The New Calvinism, in its allegiance to the inerrancy of the Bible, embraces the biblical truths behind the five points (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.
1. The Old Calvinism begins with the doctrine of Scripture summarized in confessions like the Westminster Confession of Faith and is willing to use TULIP as a handle for understanding Calvinist soteriology. Old Calvinism also relies on systematic thought.
2. The New Calvinism embraces the sovereignty of God in salvation, and in all the affairs of life in history, including evil and suffering.
2. The Old Calvinism affirms divine sovereignty in everything, even in Christ’s death on the cross for the elect.
3. The New Calvinism has a strong complementarian flavor as opposed to egalitarian, with an emphasis on the flourishing of men and women in relationships where men embrace a call to robust, humble, Christ-like servant leadership.
3. The Old Calvinism follows biblical teaching on male ordination and refuses to describe human life this side of glory as flourishing.
4. The New Calvinism leans toward being culture-affirming rather than culture-denying, while holding fast to some very culturally alien positions, like positions on same-sex practice and abortion.
4. The Old Calvinism understands salvation to be distinct from culture, hence Old Calvinists’ belief that deceased saints are saved even though they no longer inhabit a culture.
5. The New Calvinism embraces the essential place of the local church. It is led mainly by pastors, has a vibrant church-planting bent, produces widely-sung worship music, and exalts the preached word as central to the work of God locally and globally.
5. The Old Calvinism does not exist apart from congregations where the marks of the church are evident and which are part of regional, national, and ecumenical assemblies.
6. The New Calvinism is aggressively mission-driven, including missional impact on social evils, evangelistic impact on personal networks, and missionary impact on unreached peoples of the world.
6. The Old Calvinism actually calls and supports home and foreign missionaries through assemblies of presbyters that oversee such ministry.
7. The New Calvinism is inter-denominational with a strong (some would say oxymoronic) Baptistic element.
7. The Old Calvinism is Reformed Protestant and seeks fraternal relations with communions of like faith and practice.
8. The New Calvinism includes charismatics and non-charismatics.
8. The Old Calvinism excludes charismatics because Old Calvinists believe in the sufficiency of Scripture.
For the rest of this fine list, see:
http://oldlife.org/2014/03/new-calvinism-old-calvinism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-calvinism-old-calvinism
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