The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

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.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.