Posted on 12/13/2006 6:14:41 PM PST by sionnsar
Of course the question becomes who controls the church authority--and how the priesthood of all believers comes into it...
A lot of FReeper Calvinists (as is true for all of America) by the way are Baptists...who don't accept covenant theology, which I believe is key to understanding Calvin at all. Calvinist Baptists too tend to be annoyingly dogmatic, loving to hammer away, in my humble opinion.... (you should meet some of my conservative Presbyterian seminary professors...some of the mildest most agreeable men you can find...with solid conviction!)
Thomist Roman Catholics (following Aquinus) actually are the Augustinian (call them Calvinist) wing of that body...not in favor for close to 500 years now. Those darn Franciscans and Jesuits!
"Thomist Roman Catholics (following Aquinus) actually are the Augustinian (call them Calvinist) wing of that body...not in favor for close to 500 years now...."
Luckily, as a general matter, we in the East haven't been overly plagued by Augustinianism in any of its forms and have thus avoided some rather distressing controversies and theology. Of course, it does mean that here on FR we are rather regularly accused of being synergists and/or Semi-Pelagians...but we don't loose too much sleep over it.
To clarify, do you mean that is how you define yourself?
Aquinas and Calvin were both brilliant and were both influenced by Augustine, albeit in very different ways. I wouldn't draw too many parallels beyond that!
Aquinas and Calvin were both brilliant and were both influenced by Augustine, albeit in very different ways. I wouldn't draw too many parallels beyond that!
What else drives it?
Homosexual agenda.
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