Today's rank-and-file Calvinists are more in the mold of Pink, Boettner, and J.I. Packer than they are like Spurgeon or Whitefield. In other words, modern Calvinism is producing mostly students and polemicists, not evangelists and preachers. That's because Internet Calvinism is simply too academic and theoretical and not concerned enough with doing, as opposed to hearing, the Word (James 1:22). To a large degree, I think that's what the medium itself encourages.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Phil Johnson on Quick and Dirty Calvinism
Phillip Johnson of Grace Community Church has started blogging with a bang. His first post,Quick-and-Dirty Calvinism, identifies some of the major differences between Internet and historic Calvinism. Among them:
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Stop posting convicting material! hahaha Good stuff and very true! I am surely guilty of that, being prone to a more contemplative life.
Anyway, Keith already knew that I would have something to say on this topic LOL. Curt Daniel does an EXCELLENT JOB discussing these problems in The History and Theology of Calvinism lectures at www.SermonAudio.com See especially the lectures Practical Implications of Calvinism, and The Future of Calvinism . He warns against the same dangers Phil mentions.
Thanks for providing the link to Phil's blog Keith! :-)
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