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The New Calvinism: A Sheep in Wolves' Clothing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

David Basinger
David Basinger
Affiliation:
Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive Rochester New York 14624, U.S.A.
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Traditionally, Calvinists (those in the Reformed tradition) have placed a great deal of emphasis on their belief that

(1)God has total control over all earthly affairs.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , November 1986 , pp. 483 - 500
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1986

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References

1 See for example, Clark, Gordon, Religion, Reason and Revelation (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1961) pp. 221–241.Google Scholar

2 See, for example, Feinberg, John, Trinity Journal (1980): pp. 142–152.Google Scholar

3 See, for example, Plantinga, Alvin, God Freedom and Evil (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977), pp. 31–32.Google Scholar

4 See, for example, Packer, J. I., Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (Chicago: Inter-Varsity Press, 1961), pp. 22–23.Google Scholar

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6 See Leibniz, , ‘The Theodicy’ in Philosophical Classics, ed. Kaufmann, Walter (Englewood, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1961), pp. 260–268Google Scholar. A popular contemporary version of this perspective can be found in Geisler, Norman, Philosophy of Religion (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1974), pp. 349–377.Google Scholar

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8 See, for example, Pinnock, Clark, Predestination and Free Will, ed. by David, and Basinger, Randall (Downers Grove, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1986), pp. 144–159.Google Scholar

9 See, for example, Bruce Reichenbach, Predestination and Free Will, pp. 102–24.

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11 Anderson, Susan, ‘Plantinga and the Free Will Defense’, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 62 (1981): pp. 274–281.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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13 See Basinger, David, ‘Why Petition an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Wholly Good God?’ Religious Studies 19 (1983): pp. 25–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar