[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial ways. Some may scoff at this, saying that such "developments" don't represent Reformed thought. But by what standard? Perhaps by the Westminster Confession. But this is only one Reformed confession, and it was only ever a subordinate standard.

One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.