Nicholas Wolterstorff initially presented this book as a series of lectures for the Kuyper series at . . .
World Formative Christianity.
Chapter 1. The purpose of the book is to explore Calvinism in its systematic assertions rather than its inconsistent or overreaching applications. The system was not always thought out and put in practice appropriately.
Key points: C was a movement way from midieval christianity's "otheworldly" outlook.
avertive vs. formative religions. Medieval Christianity/ avertive religion. Lutheranism and Calvinism were formative religions.
Luther took the formation (or reformation) of the soul and the church. Things were not as they should be and must be reformed through contemplation and sanctification.
Calvin and the reformers took to reforming the world. The systems of the world are offensive to God and do not represent his justice and truth and therefore must be reformed. Christians engage in this reformation out of gratitude and through vocation. Ones place as Lord, Serf, slave or free is not to be taken as granted but rather ones gifts and abilities were to be expressed through ones vocation and reformation of the systems of the world.
Monday, February 4, 2008
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