![]() ![]() (And, just to head off objections, it does not good to claim that one can believe only in a decree of election and not reprobation unless one is some kind of universalist. (Luther took this position in response to Erasmus but I don’t claim this was his consistent position throughout his life.) I don’t think Calvinism is inherently voluntaristic, but voluntarism suddenly appears when the challenge to explain God’s goodness in light of the decree of reprobation appears. ![]() ![]() When I push this “button” on Calvinism to a Calvinist he or she usually retreats into voluntarism-the idea promoted by Duns Scotus and Ulrich Zwingli (among others) that God is above all law, meaning our intuitions about “the good” do not apply to God at all, and whatever God does is good simply because God does it. ![]()
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