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Responsible man in reformed theology: Calvin versus the Westminister Confession

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dc.contributor.authorRolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
dc.contributor.authorCambridge University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T07:46:40Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T07:46:40Z
dc.date.issued1970
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractIn the concept of the essential nature of responsible persons, Calvin and the Calvinists that followed him differed significantly. The Calvinists formulated what they called a double covenant between God and humans, a covenant of works and a covenant of grace. Humans were placed in creation and expected to keep God's law, and to be judged on their merits. Humans sinned, broken God's law and failed to keep this covenant. On this basis they are judged, and lost. In the covenant of grace, God enters and redeems human life by grace, and this is the Biblical story in Israel, fulfilled in Christ. The danger that has beset Reformed thought is that in its use of covenant, nature, law, and grace, it makes of the Christian faith something which comes in where human powers fail. Humans need God only for the mending of life's wrongness, to rescue persons from their irresponsibility. The authentic Reformed witness makes place for this, but goes beyond. Religion belongs not just to the weakness of life, but also to its strength. A person's fundamental need for communion with a gracious God springs not merely from redemption, but more basically from one's dignity as a creature formed for grace. Grace belongs before sin, not less than after. In grace God made and makes responsible persons.
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationRolston, Holmes, III, Responsible Man in Reformed Theology: Calvin Versus the Westminister Confession, Scottish Journal of Theology 23, no. 2 (1970): 129-156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600021347
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600021347
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/86380
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartofScience & Religion: Anthologies and Journal Articles
dc.rights©1970 Cambridge University Press.
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dc.subjectlaw
dc.subjectCalvin, John
dc.subjectreformed theology
dc.subjectWestminster confession
dc.subjectresponsibility
dc.subjectgrace
dc.subjectsin
dc.subjectcovenant of works
dc.subjectcovenant of grace
dc.subject.lcshCalvinists
dc.titleResponsible man in reformed theology: Calvin versus the Westminister Confession
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