Tolle Lege: The angry Calvinist

July 13, 2012 by Dr. Jeff Robinson

Note: The following review is from my dear friend Tom Ascol, head of Founders Ministries. It is a book all we who cherish Reformed Theology desperately need to read and serves as a much-needed reminder that the doctrines we believer are the doctrines of "grace." If our embrace of the doctrines of grace push us in the direction of arrogance, we have not yet understood God's grace accurately. --Pastor Jeff]

 

By Tom Ascol

When I first heard the title of the book, Killing Calvinism, I assumed it was another attempt to repudiate the doctrines of grace. Then I read the subtitle: How to Destroy a Perfectly Good Theology from the Inside. Fortunately, withing a few days the author, Greg Dutcher, offered to send me a copy. Within 15 minutes I knew it was a book that I would be recommending for a long time. It is a book that is desperately needed, full of biblical wisdom and easily accessible.

Dutcher is a gifted writer. As my late friend, Ernie Reisinger, loved to say, he puts the cookies on the lower shelf. That doesn't mean that the book is simplistic or insignificant. On the contrary, it is profound in its insights and applications. Furthermore, it could not be more timely.

It is indisputable that we are in the midst of a reformation and recovery of the doctrines of grace, or what has historically been called, "Calvinism." Both statistical and anecdotal evidence of this fact continues to mount. I believe that this is a movement of God and that it is even more widespread than recent studies indicate. As is true with any of work of God, the devil always keeps pace and seeks to steal, kill and destroy. If he cannot keep us from truth then he will do what he can to cause us to hold the truth in imbalanced and ungodly ways.
 

Read the entire review: http://blog.founders.org/2012/07/killing-calvinism.html