"The Contemporary Calvinist" - 5 new articles

• Another Protestant crosses the Tiber. Lucas Westman begins a series of posts describing his journey from Pentecostalism to Reformed theology to Catholicism.
  
  
• Paul Dohse makes less and less sense every time I check out his blog: "Calvinist's (sic) don't often know their right hand from their left hand because Reformed theology communicates from an entirely different metaphysical construct than the norm." Give me a good ol' anti-Calvinist rant from Roger "The God of Calvinism Is a Moral Monster" Olson any day.
  
  
• Looking for a list of straw man arguments to refute Calvinism? Here's a list of 22 of them for a start.
  
  
• Steve Hays of Triablogue begins a running commentary on a lecture given by Jerry Walls at Houston Baptist University entitled "What's Wrong with Calvinism?"
  
  
• Calvinists and classical Arminians agree on imputed sin and total inability.
  
  
• Dr. Kevin McFadden discusses how Southern Baptists should approach theological disagreements.
  
  
• Here is a recap of recent John Piper messages from around the country.

    

• Rev. Fred Luter, president of the SBC, is trying to unite Southern Baptists, wanting to see the denomination move beyond the Calvinism issue and join together.
  
  
• Apparently following President Luter's advice, Ronnie Rogers of SBC Today explains what one can and cannot believe as a Calvinist in what I call his "You might not be a Calvinist if..." series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5).
  
  
• One woman's journey from Calvinism to "progressive Christianity."
  
  
• Bill Holdridge shares a few thoughts on Calvinism from Pastor Doug Hileman, who sums up his thoughts this way:

  Having shackled themselves with presuppositions that have no mandate in Scripture, Calvinists have embraced a system of theology that is neat, tidy, marvelously logical, and paradoxically, quite unreasonable. They have fallen prey to the same temptation as the early Church Fathers—leading with logic rather than scripture.

  I guess that explains why no Calvinist has ever been able to defend his position using scripture.
  
  
• Rabid anti-Calvinist Paul Dohse believes that Calvinists reject the Trinity in that we "make God the Father and the Holy Spirit lesser forms of Jesus Christ." Trust me. It makes even less sense when he explains it.
  
  
• C. Michael Patton on doubting Calvinists.
  
  
• Andre Fuller: Defender of the biblical gospel.

    

• Peter Lumpkins seems thrilled to discover yet another straw man to attack in his crusade against Calvinism.
  
  
• Does Hebrews 6:4-8 refute Calvinism? No, but some people still like to keep that passage in their arsenal.
  
  
• Randal Rauser blasts his Calvinist critics while at the same time playing the "some of my closest friends are Calvinist theologians" card.
  
  
• Steve Hays blasts back.
  
  
• Jemar Tisby discusses what African-Americans bring to Reformed theology.