Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism
by James Gelet
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Director: James GeletNarrator: Eric Holmberg
Host: Eric Holmberg
Commentary: Dr. R.C. Sproul
Commentary: Dr. D. James Kennedy
Commentary: Dr. Thomas Ascol
Commentary: Dr. Thomas Nettles
Producer: The Apologetics Group
Commentary: R.C. Sproul
Commentary: D. James Kennedy
Commentary: George Grant
Commentary: Stephen Mansfield
Commentary: Tom Ascol
Commentary: Thomas Nettles
Commentary: Walter Bowie
Commentary: Walt Chantrey
Commentary: Joseph Morecraft
Commentary: Ken Talbot
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen
Running Time: 257 minutes
Published: 2004
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: The Apologetics Group
Product features:
- Producer: Nicene Council/The Apologetics Group, Inc.
- Written by: Jerry Johnson & Eric Holmberg
- Encoding: Region Free
- DVD Release Date: October, 2004
- Time Running: 4 hours 17 minutes
Movie Reviews of Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism
Movie Review: Truth Unchanged
Summary: 5 Stars
An important measurement that one can apply to determine the verity and reliability of a truth claim is to test its immutability over time. Real truth does not change. It withstands scrutiny, challenges, and calumnies throughout the ages without any need of retraction, revision, refinement, evolution or update. Upon learning the history and theology of Calvinism and Arminianism in this DVD, sincere reasonable students of the Bible would immediately sense there is something fishy about the Arminian doctrines merely by considering the fact they have undergone multiple contradictory changes from the days of Arminius; the traditional Arminianism; to their modern version in which the doctrine of the so-called prevenient grace was added as a significant deviation to answer the objections to the previous existing claims. Another modern deviation includes the death of Christ being the payment of sins, while the traditional view only claims Christ suffered for sinners, as quoted from Dr. J. Kenneth Gilder, a leading Arminian scholar.
On the other hand, to the best of my knowledge, the five points of Calvinism stand firm to this very day, and I dare to add, since before the creation of the world, without any addition, subtraction nor revision, because their solid-rock foundation is nothing but the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God.
Dr. Phillip Schaff puts it this way, as quoted in the DVD:
"Calvinism represents a consistent, logical, conservative orthodoxy; Arminianism an elastic, progressive, changing liberalism."
Eric Holmberg rightly states that the root of the Arminian errors is the fundamental error in their view of the spiritual state of post-lapsarian man. He clarifies it by comparing the Pelagian view which is the seed of the Arminian error, the Arminian view itself, and the Calvinist view, that post-lapsarian man is well like pre-lapsarian Adam and just needs a teacher, sick and just needs a physician, dead and therefore needs to be resurrected by a Savior, respectively. Those mistaken in this view are bound to be mistaken in their views of the attribute of God, particularly His sovereignty and activity being subservient to the autonomous will of man, the nature of salvation being synergistic instead of monergistic, the efficacy of the atonement that doesn't save anybody, but it only provides an opportunity to be saved because a decisive factor is the individual's free-will decision to be saved which is an inevitable consequence of a synergistic view of salvation, and eternal security of believers that is precarious since it is dependent on one's will to remain in the faith or not. On the contrary, total depravity, total inability to choose God, spiritual deadness necessitates salvation to be God's initiative and effort, through election, redemption, regeneration, and preservation. Here is grace in the fullest sense of the word.
But the implication of Arminianism reaches beyond TULIP, as Holmberg and other speakers point out. The teaching of human autonomy, the heart of Arminianism, inevitably affects our worldviews. One troublesome consequence is that it challenges the inspiration, inerrancy, and infallibility of Scriptures considering, what if what was written in the Scriptures was "the fallible author's free will" instead of God's will, asks Dr. Roger Schultz. Dr. Stephen Mansfield has the following to say on the pervasiveness of human autonomy,
"We could expect the idea that God choosing would be offensive to the rebellion of the human soul, but even more so in our culture where free-will and I'll have it my way is almost at an idolatrous level."
To the Calvinists, grace is amazing because God is amazing, specifically in his gracious monergistic exercise in Christ to save ill-deserved spiritually dead sinners, and therefore He alone receives the glory; Soli Deo Gloria. To the Arminians, grace is diminished, and men rob a portion of the glory that is due God alone and claim it to be theirs, though they may not do it explicitly. The words of John Owen ring in my ears as I thought about this. I was wondering if he was too harsh when he characterized it as "a proud Luciferian endeavor?" (The Display of Arminianism, 1642), but it is hard for me to disagree.
Calvinists should get this DVD to solidify their conviction and kindle their love for the gospel truth. Arminians should get this DVD. May the truth be known, tested and embraced. Non-Christians should get this DVD because there is gospel in it; the best news anyone would ever hear that nobody should miss.
Summary of Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism
FREE 59 PAGE STUDY GUIDE WITH PURCHASE. What is Calvinism? Does this teaching make man a robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism won't evangelism be stifled, perhaps extinguished? How can we balance God's sovereignty and man's responsibility? What are the differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edward's and a host of evangelists deny the Arminian definition of free will and label it heresy? Why did the Roman Catholic Church condemn the Reformed teaching of predestination and election and embrace free will theology? And why do so many Protestants agree with Rome on this issue? Crammed full of vignettes, analogies and interviews from leading Biblical scholars, church Historians and pastors such as Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. George Grant, Dr. Stephen Mansfield, Dr. Thomas Ascol, Dr. Thomas Nettles, Dr. Roger Schultz, Pastor Walt Chantry, Dr. Joe Morecraft, Dr. Ken Talbot, Pastor Walter Bowie and Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr., this video will explain what the great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon meant when he said "to deny Calvinism is to deny the gospel of Jesus Christ." FREE 59 PAGE STUDY GUIDE WITH PURCHASE.Similar DVD Movies
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