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To: xzins

It is not the language that bothers me so much as the interpretation of it. It goes back to John Wesley, who could not decide whether he was Calvinist or Arminian. An enormously gifted evangelist; a fuzzy thinker.

Anyway, I dislike much of what I find in Catholic hymnbooks, but I am always delighted to see a Charles Wesley hymn announced.


70 posted on 06/23/2006 9:46:37 AM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS

Wesley was trying hard to be a calvinist in the tradition of Arminius.

Arminius was, of course, a professor at a major calvinist university and a preacher in a major calvinist pulpit.

He was examined many times and allowed to remain, and it was not until after his death that he was found theologically wanting.

My own sense was that he had a more expansive view of what Calvin taught and was able to explain it in person, but that his followers were not.


72 posted on 06/23/2006 9:55:36 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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