A Dutch Calvinist life

Israel, J. (1995). The Dutch B epublic. Its R/se Greatness and Fall i yy-iSo6. Oxford 85. Even today, we can speak of fluid Protestantism in the Netherlands. The saying goes that if you meet ten Dutchmen, together they will represent at least eleven Protestant churches. 

Deursen, A. Th. van (1998 (1974)). Bavianen en Slijkgeu en. Kerk en Kerkvolk ten tijde van Maurits en Oldeharnevelt. Franeker 133. 

Israel (1995). The Dutch Kepublir. 475. On the distinction between Reformed Orthodoxy and Further Reformation see also Spijker, W. van t (1993). Orthodoxie en Nadere Reformatie. In T. Brienen, K. Exalto, C. Graafland, B. Loonstra, W. van t Spijker, Theologische Aspecten van de Nadere Teformatie (pp.11-27). Zoetermeer. 

Calvin s doctrine of predestination is part of the doctrine of grace, and it holds that God, by His eternal and immutable counsel determines once for all those whom it was His pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. Although the theme of election has dominated reformed theology from 1570, it was by no means central to Calvin s own thought. It only appears in the third book of the Institutes and it is part of the doctrine of redemption in Christ. For Calvin its main object is to show the sovereignty and graciousness of God. Therefore it is not the object of human speculation, but a mystery of 

McGrath, Alister E. (1999). P-eformation Thought. A.n Introduction. 3rd Ed. Oxford 140. For the difference between Calvin and Beza see also Muller, R.A. (1986). Christ and the Decree Christology and Predestination in Keformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins. Durham. 

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