The Internet Monk's Apostasy...From Calvinism
Now that I've got your attention...
If you haven't heard of the recent hoo-ha (now subsided) after James White replied to Michael Spencer (the iMonk), let me update you:
It all started when the Internet Monk quit from holding the Calvinist name tag, and James White responded (here and here).
He all recently posted a Q&A telling us why he would not want to be identified as a Calvinist anymore.
One is then tempted ask- "Why?" Why did this person leave the Calvinist name tag (and put on another, by the way, called Christian Humanism). Basically, it was his beef with today's Calvinists.
They are, apparently
John Macarthur, Al Mohler and a lot of very angry young men defending all kinds of fundamentalist yahooism. The profile and "flavor" of the movement has changed in significant ways, at least as I perceive and experience it. It is no longer a basic grid, but is coming to include all kinds of things: mandatry hostility to public schools, culture wars, rejection of other Christians, Young Earth Creationism, ridiculous intimidation and defaming of good people writing and reading theology outside of the "approved list."
That's for starters. One would like to note how he brands the majority of Calvinists (Even if they are innocent from his majority of accusations) as being guilty of the above. Aside from his personal bias against YEC (Talk about bullied by science!), he despises polemics. I disagree with him here- Retreat from controversial issues will not help anyone's faith, and will certainly do much harm than good. Calvinists may be too much engaged with polemics, but I believe, it is for the right reasons.
After his acceptance of Romanism and the Emergent Movement, one is now compelled to ask this question- "So, is the iMonk still our friend?"
Well, I'll let you decide.
As for me, it was his own funeral.
If you haven't heard of the recent hoo-ha (now subsided) after James White replied to Michael Spencer (the iMonk), let me update you:
It all started when the Internet Monk quit from holding the Calvinist name tag, and James White responded (here and here).
He all recently posted a Q&A telling us why he would not want to be identified as a Calvinist anymore.
One is then tempted ask- "Why?" Why did this person leave the Calvinist name tag (and put on another, by the way, called Christian Humanism). Basically, it was his beef with today's Calvinists.
They are, apparently
John Macarthur, Al Mohler and a lot of very angry young men defending all kinds of fundamentalist yahooism. The profile and "flavor" of the movement has changed in significant ways, at least as I perceive and experience it. It is no longer a basic grid, but is coming to include all kinds of things: mandatry hostility to public schools, culture wars, rejection of other Christians, Young Earth Creationism, ridiculous intimidation and defaming of good people writing and reading theology outside of the "approved list."
That's for starters. One would like to note how he brands the majority of Calvinists (Even if they are innocent from his majority of accusations) as being guilty of the above. Aside from his personal bias against YEC (Talk about bullied by science!), he despises polemics. I disagree with him here- Retreat from controversial issues will not help anyone's faith, and will certainly do much harm than good. Calvinists may be too much engaged with polemics, but I believe, it is for the right reasons.
After his acceptance of Romanism and the Emergent Movement, one is now compelled to ask this question- "So, is the iMonk still our friend?"
Well, I'll let you decide.
As for me, it was his own funeral.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 12:10 PM.
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