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Jeremy Walker is a pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church in Crawley, England; author of Life in Christ and The Brokenhearted Evangelist, and coauthor of A Portrait of Paul: Identifying a True Minister of Christ.
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I heard the author speak on this topic at my church in the Philippines. Basically the book is a expanded version of the lecture. It is a considered and balanced assessment of the "New Calvinism" movement mentioning well known names eg John Piper. It highlights the dangers of the movement and explains these Biblically but the author also documents the positive aspects of the movement. Recommended.
Review first appeared here: http://stevebishop.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/review-new-calvinists-by-jeremy-walker...
Jeremy Walker, pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley, provides a good introduction and analysis of the New Calvinists and its proponents such as John Piper, Mark Driscoll, C. J. Mahaney and Matt Chandler. Being a Brit Walker presents a helpful outsider’s view of New Calvinism.
New Calvinists are rarely out of the Christian-social-media news; and, often, not for the best of reasons: we have had the Elephant Room with T. D. Jakes and Steven Furtick, the abuse allegations at Sovereign Grace Ministries, plagiarism, and the blatant use self-promotion techniques in order to appear to be big and successful. Tim Challies has recently produced an excellent infographic on New Calvinism - it presents a skewed one-sided view of it (inevitably!); he appropriates John Stott to the cause and makes the success of Rap and Hip Hop down to the endorsement of John Piper (HT @wyclif)!
New Calvinism came to the attention of the wider public when it was named as one of the 10 ideas changing the world by Time magazine - although Challies places its origin to the 1986 publication of Piper’s Desiring God. Unfortunately, Time used the term neo-Calvinism to describe it. Not realising that it had already been taken! New is definitely not neo when it comes to Calvinism. Sadly, many have made that mistake. Fortunately Walker is not one of them.
Walker as the subtitle implies presents a personal and pastoral assessment and so, helpfully, avoids a polemical approach - I didn’t spot any straw men. As he puts it: “I’d rather use hard arguments than hard words” and “I would rather deal with the issues, but the issues are so intertwined with the personalities”. Walker is aware that New Calvinism is not “monolithic” it is more an amorphous conglomeration of networks and conferences, rather then a clearly defined entity.
Walker starts in good sh*t sandwich fashion by outlining some of the good things that he sees in New Calvinism these include being:
Christ-oriented;
grace-soaked;
avowedly a missional movement;
a complementarian movement;
immersed and inventive (“If you own a PC you are almost by definition not a New Calvinist”)
commitment in principle to expositional preaching.
Personally I wouldn't place complementarian in this category. Too often it leads to an unbiblical view of authority:
Walker then takes a look at some of his cautions and concerns. These include:
The tendency towards pragmatism and commercialism
An unbalanced view of culture. Here Walker suggests that “a neo-Kuyperian perspective dominates the movement” (if only that were true!). There has been a misappropriation of Kuyper to justify using “worldly” methods - Walker suggests that for the New Calvinist culture is neutral and so can be appropriated by Christianising it - this is certainly not what Kuyper taught or thought!
A troubling approach to holiness - manifested in incipient antinomianism (we are not under law, so we can do what we like) and unbiblical views of sanctification. Walker makes an excellent point here: “principled obedience is not legalism”.
A potentially dangerous ecumenism - an emphasising of unity over truth
A genuine tension with regard to spiritual gifts.
A degree of arrogance and triumphalism
It should be emphasised that Walker doesn’t see all these in all of the New Calvinists. He is careful not to overgeneralise.
For Walker New Calvinism is at best Christ-centred and at worst human-centred. He focuses primarily on the theology of the movement. His critique could have been helped by sociological and historical perspectives. He mentions that it is centre-bounded rather than boundary-bounded, but doesn’t develop this helpful insight and it implications. Nevertheless, this is a good place to start to understand the strengths and weakness of a movement that is probably past its heyday.
Let’s forget New Calvinism, we want a Newer Calvinism, and then the Newest Calvinism. This faddishness evidenced in some New Calvinists can be remedied, Walker suggest, by being mere Calvinists - or has it: “be Calvinists. Don’t be new Calvinists or any other particular brand or stripe of Calvinists, whatever those distinctions may presently mean, or may come to mean.
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Jeremy Walker, pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley, provides a good introduction and analysis of the New Calvinists and its proponents such as John Piper, Mark Driscoll, C. J. Mahaney and Matt Chandler. Being a Brit Walker presents a helpful outsider’s view of New Calvinism.
New Calvinists are rarely out of the Christian-social-media news; and, often, not for the best of reasons: we have had the Elephant Room with T. D. Jakes and Steven Furtick, the abuse allegations at Sovereign Grace Ministries, plagiarism, and the blatant use self-promotion techniques in order to appear to be big and successful. Tim Challies has recently produced an excellent infographic on New Calvinism - it presents a skewed one-sided view of it (inevitably!); he appropriates John Stott to the cause and makes the success of Rap and Hip Hop down to the endorsement of John Piper (HT @wyclif)!
New Calvinism came to the attention of the wider public when it was named as one of the 10 ideas changing the world by Time magazine - although Challies places its origin to the 1986 publication of Piper’s Desiring God. Unfortunately, Time used the term neo-Calvinism to describe it. Not realising that it had already been taken! New is definitely not neo when it comes to Calvinism. Sadly, many have made that mistake. Fortunately Walker is not one of them.
Walker as the subtitle implies presents a personal and pastoral assessment and so, helpfully, avoids a polemical approach - I didn’t spot any straw men. As he puts it: “I’d rather use hard arguments than hard words” and “I would rather deal with the issues, but the issues are so intertwined with the personalities”. Walker is aware that New Calvinism is not “monolithic” it is more an amorphous conglomeration of networks and conferences, rather then a clearly defined entity.
Walker starts in good sh*t sandwich fashion by outlining some of the good things that he sees in New Calvinism these include being:
Christ-oriented;
grace-soaked;
avowedly a missional movement;
a complementarian movement;
immersed and inventive (“If you own a PC you are almost by definition not a New Calvinist”)
commitment in principle to expositional preaching.
Personally I wouldn't place complementarian in this category. Too often it leads to an unbiblical view of authority:
Walker then takes a look at some of his cautions and concerns. These include:
The tendency towards pragmatism and commercialism
An unbalanced view of culture. Here Walker suggests that “a neo-Kuyperian perspective dominates the movement” (if only that were true!). There has been a misappropriation of Kuyper to justify using “worldly” methods - Walker suggests that for the New Calvinist culture is neutral and so can be appropriated by Christianising it - this is certainly not what Kuyper taught or thought!
A troubling approach to holiness - manifested in incipient antinomianism (we are not under law, so we can do what we like) and unbiblical views of sanctification. Walker makes an excellent point here: “principled obedience is not legalism”.
A potentially dangerous ecumenism - an emphasising of unity over truth
A genuine tension with regard to spiritual gifts.
A degree of arrogance and triumphalism
It should be emphasised that Walker doesn’t see all these in all of the New Calvinists. He is careful not to overgeneralise.
For Walker New Calvinism is at best Christ-centred and at worst human-centred. He focuses primarily on the theology of the movement. His critique could have been helped by sociological and historical perspectives. He mentions that it is centre-bounded rather than boundary-bounded, but doesn’t develop this helpful insight and it implications. Nevertheless, this is a good place to start to understand the strengths and weakness of a movement that is probably past its heyday.
Let’s forget New Calvinism, we want a Newer Calvinism, and then the Newest Calvinism. This faddishness evidenced in some New Calvinists can be remedied, Walker suggest, by being mere Calvinists - or has it: “be Calvinists. Don’t be new Calvinists or any other particular brand or stripe of Calvinists, whatever those distinctions may presently mean, or may come to mean.
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The apostle Paul was arguably the foremost servant of Jesus in the history of Christianity. In A Portrait of Paul authors Rob Ventura and Jeremy Walker take a look at Paul and the nature of his ministry by means of a careful walk through Colossians 1:24-2:5. In doing so that not only show the characteristics that guided Paul as a servant of the Gospel but they provide a road map of the types of things they strongly believe that both search committees should use as they seek a pastor to lead them and that pastors should possess and develop throughout their time in active ministry.
Ventura and Walker are both pastors who came to their common understanding of Paul and his ministry while preaching through the book of Colossians. Together, as they work through the end of the first chapter and the beginning of the second they indentify within it the key facets of Paul's ministry, keys that they feel all pastors should both identify and pursue. There ten, including joy, focus, essence, goal and conflict. Each chapter contains a discussion of that facet of ministry for Paul, a discussion that goes beyond the letter to the Colossians but includes relevant material from Acts and the other Pauline letters. The chapters then have two closing sections, one addressed to the Christian reader and one addressed to pastors. It is in the closing sections of the chapters where the authors speak directly to the hearts of their readers in commending the qualities found in Paul's ministry as the essential qualities for all ministers.
While Ventura and Walker use Colossians as their stepping-off point, they don't limit themselves to that text, as their exploration of Paul's ministry is saturated in both Biblical texts and the work of other authors, particularly the Puritans. In the 21st century there is a plethora of ministry leadership books, with a broad range of suggestions and recommendations for those who serve in pastoral leadership, works that are unfortunately reliant on methods that work in business and/or make accommodations to the culture of our day. Ventura and Walker have gone back to draw from Paul, the example par excellence, without apology to the trends of our day, to give direction and encouragement to those who seek to shepherd God's people well today. I highly commend this book and have added it to those resources I intend to return to for guidance and encouragement in my own ministry.… (mehr)
Ventura and Walker are both pastors who came to their common understanding of Paul and his ministry while preaching through the book of Colossians. Together, as they work through the end of the first chapter and the beginning of the second they indentify within it the key facets of Paul's ministry, keys that they feel all pastors should both identify and pursue. There ten, including joy, focus, essence, goal and conflict. Each chapter contains a discussion of that facet of ministry for Paul, a discussion that goes beyond the letter to the Colossians but includes relevant material from Acts and the other Pauline letters. The chapters then have two closing sections, one addressed to the Christian reader and one addressed to pastors. It is in the closing sections of the chapters where the authors speak directly to the hearts of their readers in commending the qualities found in Paul's ministry as the essential qualities for all ministers.
While Ventura and Walker use Colossians as their stepping-off point, they don't limit themselves to that text, as their exploration of Paul's ministry is saturated in both Biblical texts and the work of other authors, particularly the Puritans. In the 21st century there is a plethora of ministry leadership books, with a broad range of suggestions and recommendations for those who serve in pastoral leadership, works that are unfortunately reliant on methods that work in business and/or make accommodations to the culture of our day. Ventura and Walker have gone back to draw from Paul, the example par excellence, without apology to the trends of our day, to give direction and encouragement to those who seek to shepherd God's people well today. I highly commend this book and have added it to those resources I intend to return to for guidance and encouragement in my own ministry.… (mehr)
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Jeremy Walker, pastor of Maidenbower Baptist Church, Crawley, provides a good introduction and analysis of the New Calvinists and its proponents such as John Piper, Mark Driscoll, C. J. Mahaney and Matt Chandler. Being a Brit Walker presents a helpful outsider’s view of New Calvinism.
New Calvinists are rarely out of the Christian-social-media news; and, often, not for the best of reasons: we have had the Elephant Room with T. D. Jakes and Steven Furtick, the abuse allegations at Sovereign Grace Ministries, plagiarism, and the blatant use self-promotion techniques in order to appear to be big and successful. Tim Challies has recently produced an excellent infographic on New Calvinism - it presents a skewed one-sided view of it (inevitably!); he appropriates John Stott to the cause and makes the success of Rap and Hip Hop down to the endorsement of John Piper (HT @wyclif)!
New Calvinism came to the attention of the wider public when it was named as one of the 10 ideas changing the world by Time magazine - although Challies places its origin to the 1986 publication of Piper’s Desiring God. Unfortunately, Time used the term neo-Calvinism to describe it. Not realising that it had already been taken! New is definitely not neo when it comes to Calvinism. Sadly, many have made that mistake. Fortunately Walker is not one of them.
Walker as the subtitle implies presents a personal and pastoral assessment and so, helpfully, avoids a polemical approach - I didn’t spot any straw men. As he puts it: “I’d rather use hard arguments than hard words” and “I would rather deal with the issues, but the issues are so intertwined with the personalities”. Walker is aware that New Calvinism is not “monolithic” it is more an amorphous conglomeration of networks and conferences, rather then a clearly defined entity.
Walker starts in good sh*t sandwich fashion by outlining some of the good things that he sees in New Calvinism these include being:
Christ-oriented;
grace-soaked;
avowedly a missional movement;
a complementarian movement;
immersed and inventive (“If you own a PC you are almost by definition not a New Calvinist”)
commitment in principle to expositional preaching.
Personally I wouldn't place complementarian in this category. Too often it leads to an unbiblical view of authority:
Walker then takes a look at some of his cautions and concerns. These include:
The tendency towards pragmatism and commercialism
An unbalanced view of culture. Here Walker suggests that “a neo-Kuyperian perspective dominates the movement” (if only that were true!). There has been a misappropriation of Kuyper to justify using “worldly” methods - Walker suggests that for the New Calvinist culture is neutral and so can be appropriated by Christianising it - this is certainly not what Kuyper taught or thought!
A troubling approach to holiness - manifested in incipient antinomianism (we are not under law, so we can do what we like) and unbiblical views of sanctification. Walker makes an excellent point here: “principled obedience is not legalism”.
A potentially dangerous ecumenism - an emphasising of unity over truth
A genuine tension with regard to spiritual gifts.
A degree of arrogance and triumphalism
It should be emphasised that Walker doesn’t see all these in all of the New Calvinists. He is careful not to overgeneralise.
For Walker New Calvinism is at best Christ-centred and at worst human-centred. He focuses primarily on the theology of the movement. His critique could have been helped by sociological and historical perspectives. He mentions that it is centre-bounded rather than boundary-bounded, but doesn’t develop this helpful insight and it implications. Nevertheless, this is a good place to start to understand the strengths and weakness of a movement that is probably past its heyday.
Let’s forget New Calvinism, we want a Newer Calvinism, and then the Newest Calvinism. This faddishness evidenced in some New Calvinists can be remedied, Walker suggest, by being mere Calvinists - or has it: “be Calvinists. Don’t be new Calvinists or any other particular brand or stripe of Calvinists, whatever those distinctions may presently mean, or may come to mean.
… (mehr)