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The New Calvinism Considered

Jeremy Walker

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The new Calvinism is proving to be such an influence on the global Christian church that it is now impossible to ignore it. But what are we to make of it? Jeremy Walkers evaluation is brief, informed, discerning and fair. Best of all, it is filled with grace as well as truth. Those who read it will be heartened by its encouragements and sobered by its warnings. Those who are wise will take its message to heart.

Stuart Olyott, pastor, missionary and author

Someone needed to write an evaluation of the new Calvinism of the young, restless, and Reformed. And it certainly had to be someone younger than me! Thank God for (young) Jeremy Walkers able assessment of this massive movement. The new Calvinism provokes either joy or fear (and perhaps some of both) in many depending on what part of it one has experienced and ones reaction to it.

The best thing about this assessment is that Jeremy has approached the matter in genuinely Christian fashion. He speaks of the difficulty of speaking accurately about such a large and diverse movement. He understands the necessity of guarding his criticisms in a way that is deeply Christian. He does not forget to commend the movement where it can and ought to be commended. Nevertheless the critique he launches loses none of its helpfulness and power for all this. He notes how difficult it is boldly to provide such criticisms in the context of the cult of celebrity and triumphalism that sometimes characterizes the New Calvinism. It is always difficult to be the little boy who tells the world that the emperor has no clothes (or has at least stripped down to his underwear), but Jeremy does so with both candor and kindness.

Jeremy is careful not to paint with brush-strokes that stain the portraits of the innocent. He, however, provides a wide-ranging critique. He kindly but incisively speaks of its tendency to triumphalism , the divide within it over Charismatic views of the spiritual gifts , its embracing some with a dangerously broad ecumenism , its important and deep disagreements over matters of holiness (the place of works in sanctification and antinomianism), its deeply questionable Kuyperian views of culture with their tendency to destroy the distinction between the holy and the profane, and its ugly tendency to embrace pragmatism and commercialism in church life.

If you are not sure what to think of the new Calvinism, you need to read this book. If you have friends struggling with it, you need to give them this book. If you are being reproached for not embracing it, use the arguments and cautions of this book to defend yourself. If you are in danger of rejecting the whole of new Calvinism root and branch, you need the care of this book to restrain you. My prayer is that God will give this little book great usefulness!

Dr Sam Waldron, Academic Dean of the Midwest Center for Theological Studies

As the young, restless and reformed movement(s) appears to be slowly but surely running its course, the big question is: what has it provided that is of lasting value, for which we should be grateful, and where has it fallen short of expectations and, indeed, of biblical orthodoxy? This short booklet by Jeremy Walker seeks to address these questions in a manner that is both irenic and critical. A very useful contribution to the literature on the subject.

Carl Trueman, Professor of Historical Theology and Church History holding the Paul Woolley Chair of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia

The new Calvinism is a fairly recent phenomenon and a rather nebulous movement still in fluxnot an easy subject for analysis and critique. Is this truly a resurgence of biblical and Calvinist conviction, or is it just the latest evangelical fada new decoration on the sputtering pragmatist bandwagon? Jeremy Walker has made a thoughtful, instructive, evenhanded assessment of the most visible and influential streams of the new Calvinism. He acknowledges aspects of the movement that are encouraging and beneficial, but he also points out and carefully critiques several deeply troubling tendencies. The result is a perceptive and profitable appraisal of a complex, sometimes confusing, trend among young evangelicalsand a clear signpost pointing the right way ahead for a movement now at the crossroads.

Phil Johnson, Executive Director at Grace to You

We are all caught up in movements of religious thought, and at the current time none is more pervasive than the movement known as the New Calvinism. Some of its leading figures have become celebrities of evangelicalism; many of its leading ideasdrawn in the most part from Reformed thinkershave impacted church life in a variety of ways. In this book, Jeremy Walker helps both to introduce the movement to us, and to weigh up some of its characteristics. This is a helpful guide, appreciative with discernment, and critical without condemnation. Its conclusion is deceptively simple: we must be Reformedthat is, biblicalChristians, and we must be ourselves. Jeremys engagement will help us to try the spirits and to live and minister in a biblical, God-honouring way.

Rev. Dr Iain D Campbell, Free Church of Scotland, Point, Isle of Lewis

Contents

Preface

S everal years ago I wrote a brief piece on the new Calvinism on a personal blog called The Wanderer . It garnered more attention and stimulated more discussion than many other articles. On the back of that effort, I was asked by a church in the US if I would be prepared to deal with the topic in an adult Sunday School class. I semi-willingly agreed. That material also proved popular, and was transcribed, edited and made available in a number of formats online. A number of friends found it useful or engaged with it in some way. I also treated the topic at some length in an adult Sunday School class in the congregation which I serve. Several members had been influenced by or exposed to the new Calvinism, either having appreciated and benefited from some of its best features or been threatened and scarred by some of its worst.

Since then, without wishing to gain a reputation as the bloke who does new Calvinism, still less as a man seeking to develop one of those discernment ministries that seems to consist in little more than consistent and virulent attacks against anyone who differs one iota from him on any point of doctrine, I have had opportunities to present this material in other environments, and have subsequently received a number of encouragements to put it into print. Again, I do so with a measure of reluctance, because of the constantly changing manifestations of a movement still growing and developing, because I do not wish to be a mere controversialist, and because it is quite clear that this topic is one on which various true brothers in Christ feel very deeply.

That said, I trust that this material is timely, judicious, clear, reasonable and fair, and will help those within, without and around the movement currently described as new Calvinism to make some profitable assessments, accept some particular encouragements, take account of some specific challenges, and consider some genuine concerns. As will be explained and explored further below, new Calvinism is, in brief, the label applied to the resurgence of certain central aspects of Calvinistic doctrine within conservative evangelicalism, though it is usually associated with other convictions and actions that do not or may not immediately derive from the teaching and example of John Calvin and others of similar faith and life. Of necessity, the short book you are reading assumes a certain degree of knowledge about the movement and its key movers, but I hope that many of you will either have some sense of these things already or will be able to follow up the references. Where that is the case, I trust that most of the observations will appear self-evident. Where explanations seem required, I have attempted to offer them as briefly and clearly as possible.

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