New Calvinism v. The Simplicity of the Gospel

By Cynthia Mullen Kunsman

Actually, it's been around for awhile – about as long as I have, actually, but before I was old enough to read about it.

I don't really pay much attention to the neo-Calvinists that move in the Louisville Baptist-anointed circles, though I am apparently known as one of their more outspoken critics. In following the ideology of misogyny in Evangelicalism, I traced much of it back to them and therefore had to address it. Though much goes back to an out of context interpretation of John Knox on the Presbyterian side which is more consistent with my experience, the influence of the bunk borrowed from the Baptist misogyny within all of Evangelicalism cannot be ignored.

Some suggest that most of what passes for Calvinism these days doesn't even qualify as real Calvinism, especially from those in the Gospel Coalition type of camp. Paul Dohse has been busy writing about this subject and recently released a book about how two aberrant Anglicans and a Seventh Day Adventist from Australia were invited to Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia in the late sixties, detailing how their subtly twisted doctrine has resulted in the errors of what passes for Calvinism today. Actually, most of the controversies concerning doctrine among the Reformed can be traced back to the Australian Forum in some way, or from the Redemptive Historical Method which preceded them. The group launched some provocative “new” ideas at that time, and what they actually accomplished was a remerging of justification and sanctification, but they marketed it as Reformation Theology.

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