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Calvinism Advisory Committee statement

http://www.sbclife.org/Articles/2013/06/sla5.asp

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William:If the above link doesn't work try this one:

Looks well-crafted to me.

I have followed this closely and will have a witty, erudite, and sagacious piece on it soon.

The world spins a bit faster these days ... dreidlgenic global warming?

Actually, William has a pretty good blog post about the Calvinism Advisory Committee, http://sbcplodder.blogspot.com. There are two. One about what the committee got right, and one from a few days back when he was speculating about what they would do. Good guess, on the second article, and good analysis on the first one.

Thanks, Sandy. I'm putting my brilliant, prescient, and insightful blog article in a new topic here.

Ed, the team used the term Arminianism only once but discussed the theology. The preferred term is "Traditionalist" in the SBC, though the committee avoided that, preferring "non-calvinist."

It is interesting that "non-calvinist" became the term used given that the "non-calvinist" position is the "traditional" position of the denomination. You seldom see people define their theology by what they aren't.

Ed I suppose "modified Calvinist" is what sticks in my memory. But that may not come from Bill Leonard.

My impression is that both Calvinist and non-Calvinist strains go back to the earliest years of the movement; I think they were both well established in England even before immersion supplanted affusion.

More or less what you would expect of a non-hierarchical hybrid mixing Anglican and Mennonite gene pools.