[John] Calvin's Institutes is often called a summary of Christian piety. You can't say that about many modern works of theology. You can say it of Calvin.

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.

The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will have to make up their own minds on that score!

That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

Jonathan Edwards developed a Calvinistic strand of the doctrine.

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

Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.