Thursday, June 25, 2009

My piece on Calvin in The Australian

Here!

14 comments:

Adam said...

No Jesus?

michael jensen said...

No. Fatherhood of God, though. Cut me some slack!

thatgreatcity said...

well done Michael. Nice piece. I had someone ask me just last week about 'cruel Calvinism' - I'll be sure to point him to this.
Look forward to the letters page.

thatgreatcity said...

well done Michael. Nice piece. I had someone ask me just last week about 'cruel Calvinism' - I'll be sure to point him to this.
Look forward to the letters page.

Jason said...

Thanks for the link and the article. I am curious though as to why you described Calvin's influence as waning when TIME recently listed Calvinism as one of the top ten most influential ideas right now.

michael jensen said...

Interesting point. The headline wasn't mine of course! Robinson's article was written before the resurgent New Calvinism (so-called). Not much of that in Oz, though.

Frank Gomar said...

Now there's a Slow News day!

michael jensen said...

gee THANKS!

jacob said...

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Shalom, God Bless
Everything is perfect with God

Beth El Jacob Frank

michael jensen said...

To the troll: you don't annoy me. It takes all of 5 secs to delete your abusive rantings.

Michael Canaris said...

Fascinating article. Tangentially I must admit, though, that Calvin's published political views tended to strike me as more instrumental than programmatic in character.

Michael Canaris said...

BTW, were it not for being suddenly struck by a fever, I was planning to attend AACC.

JeffK said...

Thanks for this piece. the Presys had a Calvin conference earlier in the year. I was left a bit cold by it, but it made me want to read him again. Maybe I need to get thee into Moore College for Calvin@500
By the way I caught you today at QTC in Brisbane. 10/10 for speaking under trying circumstances.

michael jensen said...

We'd love to have you!

I hope it wasn't too disastrous today. What ya gunna do, huh!?