Love condign, all loves excelling,
For our fellow Arminians;
We love one and all and only,
Each and every Wesleyan.
Our own ilk we’re ever blessing,
While we curse the Calvinist.
Pat and praise ourselves without ceasing,
Imprecations for the Reformed.
Jesus died for everybody,
All except the Calvinist;
We love thee in case thou art like us,
If thou playest on our team;
No love lost for our opponents,
Pure unbounded love for our own;
All compassion for our cronies,
Lost in love for our own kind.
Breathe, O breathe we party spirits,
For our fellow Arminians;
Love we every one of our brothers,
Every brother Wesleyan.
Our own ilk we’re ever blessing,
While we curse the Calvinist;
All compassion for our cronies,
Lost in love for our own kind.
Sounds kind of incestuous when you put it that way.
ReplyDeleteGeneral note to the blog: if any Triabloguer is interested there is a new blog put up by a seminary graduate who is attempting, Federal Vision style, to redefine Calvinism. His main influence is T. F. Torrance. I would be interested to see some apologist types interact with him. His knowledge of Federal Reformed Theology (I have to write it that way, if you go to his blog you'll see why) is a bit weak (I don't know if that is intentional on his part, Federal Visionist style), but he is pretty dogged in his claims, and his main influences' claims, that Federal Calvinism is not biblical, but *Torrance's* (and other writers) idea of true Scottish Calvinism is the real thing. He sounds like a cross between an Arminian and a Barthian who has decided to adopt Federal Vision's definition of Reformed Theology while rejecting their works righteousness. Here's his blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://theevangelicalcalvinist.wordpress.com/
ps- He values 'scholarship' and has contributors who have 'won awards.'
The guy pretty plainly denies individual election and limited atonement. I'm not sure in what ways he thinks he is Calvinistic.
ReplyDeleteI thought it would be interesting for you guys since he is influenced by a particular theologian and he is seminary educated and frankly that it is rather easy to disabuse him of his non-understandings from many angles.
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