Hyper-Calvinism

Here are all of my posts on the subject of Hyper-Calvinism:

• My Conference Chart on Four Views of the Will of God and the Cross
• John Flavel’s Reply to Baptist Hyper-Calvinism from Vindiciæ Legis et Fœderis 
• Radio Interview on Hyper-Calvinism 
• Caricatures of Hyper-Calvinism: Some Notes on Preaching to All
• Charles Spurgeon Describing Hyper-Calvinists on Reprobation 
• Peter Toon’s Writings and The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity
• A Few Quotes Related to John Gill’s Hyper-Calvinism
• Robert Oliver on Tom Nettles and John Gill 
• Gerald Priest on John Gill 
• Iain Murray on John Gill 
• Iain Murray on Spurgeon, Hyper-Calvinism and God’s Saving Will 
• Iain Murray on the Love of God and Hyper-Calvinism 
• Dr. Curt Daniel on the Free Offer, the Will of God and Hyper-Calvinism
• John MacArthur on the Sincerity of the Gospel Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• Curt Daniel on Loving Our Enemies and a Hyper-Calvinist Error
• Curt Daniel on Hyper-Calvinism and the Denial of God’s Universal Saving Will
• Greg Nichols on Dort, the Free Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• Curt Daniel on the Calvinism Debate and 4 Main Issues Regarding Hyper-Calvinism
• Brief Notes by Erroll Hulse, James T. Dennison, John Armstrong, Joel Beeke and Mark Jones on Hyper-Calvinism
• Maurice Roberts on The Free Offer of the Gospel and Dutch-American Hyper-Calvinism
• Robert K. Churchill on Gordon Clark, John Gill, and Matthew 23:37
• Geoff Thomas on Charles Spurgeon’s Battle with Hyper-Calvinism
• Barry H. Howson on Gill, Brine, Knollys, and the Second Tenet of Hyper-Calvinism: The Denial of Duty-Faith
• Barry H. Howson on Gill, Knollys and the First Tenet of Hyper-Calvinism: The Denial of the Free Offer
• Dr. Samuel Waldron’s Admonition Against Hyper-Calvinism
• Fred Zaspel on God Begging and Hyper-Calvinism
• Tom Ascol on John Gill and Hyper-Calvinism
• Tom Ascol on John Gill and the Modern Question 
• Curt Daniel on the Connection Between the “All” of the Atonement and the “Revealed Salvific Will of God”
• Donald Dunkerly on “Hyper-Calvinism Today” 
• Michael A. G. Haykin on John Gill and the Free Offer of the Gospel
• Robert A. Peterson and Michael D. Williams on the Love of God and Hyper-Calvinism 
• Robert A. Peterson on the Well-Intentioned Offer and Hyper-Calvinism
• Iain Murray’s Review of David Silversides' Book on the Free Offer 
• Anthony Hoekema on Rationalism, God’s Universal Saving Desire, and Hyper-Calvinism
• D. A. Carson on the Love of God, the Free Offer and Hyper-Calvinism 
• John Murray on Hyper-Calvinism and the Free Offer
• Recent Admissions by Tom Nettles on Gill, Hyper-Calvinism and Duty-Faith 
• Dr. Sam Waldron on Rationalism and the Hyper-Calvinist Denial of the Love of God for All
• R. K. McGregor Wright Defines Hyper-Calvinism
• David Gay on the Free Offer and Incipient Hyper-Calvinism
• Iain Murray’s Summary of His Book Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism 
• Erroll Hulse on Hyper-Calvinism, Responsibility and John Gill
• Erroll Hulse on John 3:16 and Hyper-Calvinism
• Iain Murray’s Correspondence with David Engelsma
• Curt Daniel’s Doctoral Thesis on Hyper-Calvinism and John Gill 
• Phil Johnson’s Links, Hyper-Calvinism, and My Inferences
• John Frame on the Fear of Hyper-Calvinism in the Clark/Van Til Controversy 
• Phil Johnson and the ‘Spirit of the Hyper-Calvinist Error’
• Phil Johnson Addressing a Hyper-Calvinist False Dilemma 
• Curt Daniel on the Question of Disunity of the Godhead and Hyper-Calvinism 
• The Contradiction Between the Early and Later John Gestner on the Will of God
• Cornelis Venema on Three Views of the Gospel-Call
• David Mark Rathel’s Critique of Tom Nettles on John Gill (1697–1771)
• Curt Daniel on the Four Main Issues Regarding Hyper-Calvinism
• Two Podcast Interviews on the Theology and Varieties of Hyper-Calvinism

Related Notes:

1. “Hoeksema and his followers linked the rejection of common grace with their denial of the free offer of the gospel, resulting in a distinct Dutch Reformed version of Hyper-Calvinism that went beyond the Hyper-Calvinism of John Gill and other English Hyper-Calvinists. Gill and others at least held to a modified form of common grace. Curiously, Hoeksema’s successor David Englesma claims that the Protestant Reformed Church is true Calvinism and is not Hyper-Calvinism, when in fact they are more Hyper than their English compatriots.” Curt Daniel, The History and Theology of Calvinism (Darlington, UK: Evangelical Press, 2019), 579.
2. “Hoeksema was once a Christian Reformed minister. This church saw him as a hyper-Calvinist, a strong supralapsarian, a logicistic thinker, a denier of common grace and of a well-meant gospel proclamation to all.” Fred H. Klooster, “Predestination: A Calvinistic Note,” in Perspectives on Evangelical Theology: Papers from the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, ed. K. S. Kantzer and S. N. Gundry (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979), 86.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books

Carson, D. A. The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2000.
Daniel, Curt. Hyper-Calvinism and John Gill. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Edinburgh, 1983.
———. The History and Theology of Calvinism. Springfield, IL: Good Books, 2003.
———. The History and Theology of Calvinism. Darlington, Durham, UK: Evangelical Press, 2019.
———. “HYPER-CALVINISM.” Pages 432–33 in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic. Edited by Martin Davie, Tim Grass, Stephen R. Holmes, John McDowell, and T. A. Noble. 2nd ed. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016.
Dabney, Robert Lewis. “God’s Indiscriminate Proposals of Mercy, as Related to His Power, Wisdom and Sincerity.” Pages 282–313 in Discussions. Vol. 1: Evangelical and Theological. Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle, 1982.

De Jong. Alexander C. The Well-Meant Gospel Offer. Franeker, 1953.
Engelsma, David J. Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel: An Examination of the Well-Meant Offer of the Gospel. Third Edition. Jenison, MI: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 2014.
Fuller, Andrew. “The Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation: Or, The Duty of Sinners to Believe in Jesus Christ.” Pages 325–511 in Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Andrew Fuller. Edited by Joseph Belcher. Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications, 1988.

Gay, David H. The Gospel Offer is Free: A Reply to George Ella’s Rejection of the Gospel Offer. Wilstead, Bedford, UK: Brachus, 2012.

Howe, John. “The Reconcilableness of God’s Prescience of the Sins of Men, With the Wisdom and Sincerity of His Councils, Exhortations, and Whatsoever Means He Uses to Prevent Them.” Pages 474–526 in Volume 2 of The Works of John Howe. 3 vols. London: William Tegg, 1848; repr., Ligonier, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1990.

———. “The Redeemer’s Tears Wept Over Lost Souls.” Pages 316–89 in Volume 2 of The Works of John Howe. 3 vols. London: William Tegg, 1848; repr., Ligonier, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1990.

Hulse, Erroll. The Free Offer of the Gospel: An Exposition of Common Grace and the Free Invitation of the Gospel. Worthington and Haywards Heath, Sussex, UK: Carey Publications, 1973.

MacLean, Donald J. James Durham (1622–1658): And the Gospel Offer in its Seventeenth Century Context. Göttingen, Germany: Vandehoeck & Rupprecht Academic, 2015.
Murray, Iain. Spurgeon v. Hyper-Calvinism: The Battle for Gospel Preaching. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1995.
Murray, John. “The Free Offer of the Gospel.” Pages 113–32 in Collected Writings of John Murray. 4 vols. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1982.

Silversides, David. The Free Offer: Biblical & Reformed. Glasgow, SCT: Marpet Press, 2005.

Stebbins, Ken W. Christ Freely Offered. Lithgow, NSW, Australia: Covenanter Press, 1996.
———. Christ Freely Offered: A Discussion of the General Offer of Salvation in the Light of Particular Atonement. Lansvale, NSW, Australia: Tulip Publishing, 2020. 

Toon, Peter. The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity, 1689–1765. London: The Olive Tree, 1967; Shropshire, England: Quinta Press, 2003.
———. “Hyper-Calvinism.” Page 190 in Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith. Edited by Donald K. McKim. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press; Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1992.
———. “Hyper-Calvinism.” Pages 324–25 in New Dictionary of Theology. Edited by Sinclair B. Ferguson and J. I. Packer. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988/2000.

Waldron, Sam.  The Crux of the Free Offer of the Gospel. Greenbrier, AR: Free Grace Press, 2019.

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