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Kendall interpreted Calvin as believing that Christ died for all people, but intercedes only for the elect. Kendall's thesis is now a minority view as a result of work by scholars such as Paul Helm , who argues that "both Calvin and the Puritans taught that Christ died for the elect and intercedes for the elect", [ 14 ] Richard Muller, [ 15 ...
Michael Servetus (/ s ər ˈ v iː t ə s /; [1] Spanish: Miguel Servet; French: Michel Servet; also known as Michel Servetus, Miguel de Villanueva, Revés, or Michel de Villeneuve; 29 September 1509 or 1511 – 27 October 1553) was a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, and Renaissance humanist.
John Calvin (1509–1564), from whose name Calvinism is derived. Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609), from whose name Arminianism is derived. The history of the Calvinist–Arminian debate begins in the early 17th century in the Netherlands with a Christian theological dispute between the followers of John Calvin and Jacobus Arminius and continues ...
The wrongfully convicted mailman, who had never been in trouble a day in his life, was exonerated in 2020, just 108 days before he died of cancer that had gone undiagnosed in Lansing, where Calvin ...
Penal substitution, also called penal substitutionary atonement and especially in older writings forensic theory, [1] [2] is a theory of the atonement within Protestant Christian theology, which declares that Christ, voluntarily submitting to God the Father's plan, was punished (penalized) in the place of (substitution) sinners, thus satisfying the demands of justice and propitiation, so God ...
John Calvin (/ ˈ k æ l v ɪ n /; [1] Middle French: Jehan Cauvin; French: Jean Calvin [ʒɑ̃ kalvɛ̃]; 10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
Thus, Calvin based his theological description of people as "predestinated to life or to death" on biblical authority and "actual fact". [21] Calvin noted that Scripture requires that we "consider this great mystery" of predestination, but he also warned against unrestrained "human curiosity" regarding it. [ 22 ]
John Calvin denied that the sins of the reprobate have been expiated, but he maintained that Christ died sufficiently for the whole world and only efficiently for the elect. [30] He affirmed that Jesus makes his favor "common to all" and offered "indiscriminately to all", though not "extended to all"; for all do not receive him. [ 31 ]