“Arminianism was New England’s name for a kind of religion that appears at all times and places of the church, and has at other times been known as “semi-Pelagianism,” “synergism,” etc. “Arminianism” is our self-serving interpretation of human responsibility over against God’s mercy, according to which if we are blessed it is partly because we have chosen and laboured to be, while when we suffer God is suddenly invoked for our unilateral rescue. But what Edwards called “Arminianism” should also be seen as a somewhat more specific phenomenon, the peculiarly American form of this religion… in Bonhoeffer’s phrase, “Protestantism without the reformation.” Edwards’ Arminianism was the Christian version… of the American culture religion.
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Jenson on Edwards and Arminianism as a Cultural Sell-Out.
Scott Kirkland
