Calvinist drifters - 17 September 2010 |
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How do strong confessional churches that seem to be doing all the right things drift inexorably from the truth?
That’s the question that Ian Hamilton’s recent book The Erosion of Calvinist Orthodoxy (Christian Focus, 2010) sets out to answer. It focuses on the church in 19th-century Scotland, and promises some important lessons for contemporary British evangelicals.
That’s one of the reasons why I’m delighted that Ian is going to be speaking at the forthcoming Faith of Our Fathers conference on Saturday 2 October in Southgate, North London.
Here, to whet your appetite, is an extract from the blurb for Ian’s book:
“Nineteenth century Scotland was seen as a Christian nation composed of church-going people. … The future looked bright and optimism marked many of the church leaders and congregations. Yet the sad fact is that most of them were blind to the presence of the warning signs that ultimately caused the decline and not the continued growth of the church in Scotland. … It is a salutary lesson to observe that the movements for church unions and increased evangelism of the nineteenth century were not signs of spiritual health; instead they were inadequate sticking plasters that hid dangerous spiritual disease.”
Buy it today from Christian Focus.
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