Despite their mutual respect, there were wide divergences between them. Luther's On Secular Authority would later be cited en bloc in favour of religious toleration, whereas Calvin envisaged secular authority as an agency for the compulsory establishment of the external conditions of Christian virtue and the suppression of dissent.
The introduction, glossary, chronology and bibliography contained in this volume locate the texts in the broader context of the theology and political thinking of their authors. After defining the issues involved, from both a worldview and a biblical standpoint, this work devotes three chapters to exploring the single-volume treatments against free will by the great theologians Luther, Calvin, and Edwards. The author then responds to the major issues involved in their objections to free will: foreknowledge and necessity, human depravity and the grace of God, the sovereignty and all-encompassing providence of God, and Edwards's rationalistic argument.
In each instance, the doctrine of free will, rightly understood, is in full and biblical accord with these concerns. A concluding chapter summarizes and expresses the bottom-line differences in the doctrine of salvation between the Arminian and the Calvinistic wings of reformed theology.
This date is considered the beginning of the Reformation. While the Protestant Reformers are widely praised for the rediscovery of the biblical gospel, they have come under fire regarding their views on mission. There are church historians and missiologists who argue that the Protestant Reformers were not interested in mission and, in fact, ignored the mission mandate which Christ had given to his Church.
The critics seem to overlook the fact that cities, such as Geneva and Wittenberg, in which the Reformers lived, studied and taught, served as hubs of a huge missionary enterprise. I've been looking for a credible history of the attitude of the church toward drinking and this is probably as close as it's going to get. It starts with the reformation, assuming that up till then the Catholics were in charge and obviously in favor of drinking.
However, I read some quotes in other books dated from the 4th century which indicate that there were abstainers and prohibitionists from early on, so the dark ages are still in doubt.
All that aside, it appears that Protestant denominations took a turn toward teetotalism in the mid 19th century. Before then things weren't quite so extreme. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem.
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This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Drinking With Calvin and Luther! Jul 21, Gary rated it really liked it Shelves: agenda-talk , church-story. Fun and informative. I would add convincing, but does anyone really doubt that the great saints of the past enjoyed wine and beer as a gifts from God?
What it does, though, is show just how much the godliest in Church history enjoyed alcohol, removing as it does so the last affects on the reader of the fundamentalist attitude.
In fact, it helps us to see that 'getting the effect' of alcohol is actually one of the blessings of it! The great sin of drunkenness did not put these saints off encouragi Fun and informative. The great sin of drunkenness did not put these saints off encouraging the right use of what God has given. They understood that sin is in man, not in the fermentation or distillation of any fruit or grain.
The exegetical work at the end is also very rich and edifying. Loved it. Should be read with a glass or two of wine or a few good beers! Jan 09, Sean Rhoades rated it really liked it. This book once again demonstrates that what American Evangelicals espouse is really a product of the 19th century.
Culture, rather than Scripture, informs their beliefs or at least biases their hermeneutic. Most Fundamentalist Evangelicals abstain from alcohol, or will drink very little, because they think that alcohol is evil or not really meant to be enjoyed. Squaring this view with Scripture and the history of the church is impossible.
The Bible is clear over and over again that wine alcoh This book once again demonstrates that what American Evangelicals espouse is really a product of the 19th century. The Bible is clear over and over again that wine alcohol is a good gift of God and it is meant to be enjoyed. Yet teetotaler fundamentalists call good evil and evil good. Their desire to add credence to their position goes so far as to make baseless claims about grape juice instead of wine and when wine was used in the Bible it was a lower alcohol percentage.
Ironically, while many Christians appeal to the Puritans for their piety, they tend to ignore the fact that by today's American cultural standards the Puritans would be classified as heavy drinkers! Not only did they drink heartily, they loaded their ships with thousands and thousands of gallons of beer and wine and when they arrived they brewed and distilled their own drink! The Bible says wine is a gift of God, designed to gladden the heart of man. Even Jesus was a social drinker as he came eating and drinking.
The use of alcohol and wine in the Bible and in the history of church is inescapable. For one to somehow claim that general abstinence is somehow more holy is a gross perversion of Scripture. No matter the topic, we need to be Biblical, and not allow the culture to inform our views. Sep 20, Geoff Paulson rated it it was ok. A colossal disappointment. First, just to get it out of the way real quick, in light of recent events the forward by Sproul Jr.
You don't know in what will happen in If the book is ever republished I hope the forward is removed or a new one is penned. The book is billed as "A history of alcohol in the church" but it is less history than pop-history, and less pop-history than a collection of apocryphal stories, A colossal disappointment. The book is billed as "A history of alcohol in the church" but it is less history than pop-history, and less pop-history than a collection of apocryphal stories, friend-of-a-friend tales and bad jokes recounted as real events.
The jokes, oh my the jokes are bad. Jokes are told as if invoking the name of Tetzel is worthy in itself of uproarious laughter, with a strange New Calvinist over-emphasis on predestination, and with a smarmy sense of self-satisfaction. I'm reminded of a blog post I read by a pastor many years ago where the debate between two eschatalogical viewpoints was portrayed as a straw man beat down of one dark, rich, manly beer, Black Butte Porter the Postmillennialist over the weak, ineffectual Pabst Blue Ribbon the Amillennialist.
This is the sort of groan worthy attempt is the best sort argumentation you'll get from this book. Objections to Christians using alcohol are not thoroughly and properly addressed. Rather, straw men are burned and obvious counters to arguments are not considered in a rather sophomoric display.
For a book claims to be about the history of alcohol in the church, it is oddly focused on the rivalry between Roman Catholics and Reformed, which doesn't make much sense in this context given that on this issue those two historic enemies were in agreement with the exception of when the PCUSA came down on the side as the Prohibitionists truly the beginning of the end.
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