Tuesday, January 18, 2022

I'm a Moderate Calvinist

As should be evident from previous posts, I’m a fairly moderate Calvinist.

I’m an Infralapsarian.
I make frequent use of a modified Middle Knowledge (better called Hypothetical Knowledge).
I defend a very robust form of divine permission, more robust than is typical for Calvinists.
I’m more in line with Bruce Ware and Terrance Tiessen than I am with Paul Helm.
I hold to mediate imputation of original sin (though not of Placeus’ flavor).

I’ve been thinking about adding an additional moderation to my Calvinism:  Rejecting Limited Atonement.  I think the verses for universal atonement are extremely strong--and their strongest statements occur in the Pauline literature.

I’d do this modification along Amyraldian lines.  But I think my particular views about free-choice enable the view to be more stable than that of the historical Amyraldians, just as I think they enable me to be a more stable Infralapsarian.  I've argued for the latter claim on this site.

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