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.
Oliver D. CrispFor instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.
Oliver D. Crisp[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.
Oliver D. CrispReformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.
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