An Old Calvinist Reviews the New Calvinists

Scottish theologian, Donald Macleod, gives a forthright and even funny assessment of the “new Calvinists.”

For instance, he says:

The New Calvinists are all Calvinists, but only in the limited sense that they believe in the so-called Five Points, summarised in the mnemonic TULIP (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Invincible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints).  I love all tulips, except this one, to which I am profoundly allergic.  John Calvin’s unique contribution to human thought cannot be reduced to this simplistic teaching-aid, thought up only in the 20th century.  Nor can Calvinism be reduced to ‘points’.  It is a whole world-view, embracing not only religion, but art, science, education, economics, politics and much more.