THE NEW CALVINISTS:
changing the Gospel
By E. S. Williams.
The Wakeman Trust. 74 pages. £3.50
ISBN 978 1 908 919 328
As the sub-title indicates, the author of this volume, formerly Director of Public Health for Croydon Health Authority, clearly regards the ‘New Calvinists’ as a most unfortunate development; and his view is endorsed in the commendation by Dr Peter Masters of Metropolitan Tabernacle.
I must confess to some sympathy with them, but deplore the extent to which what the book offers is a series of highly personalised attacks. Nobody who is anybody in current Reformed Theology escapes. Some of them (among them Mark Driscoll, to whose troubles I have no wish to add) are only names to me: others such as Tim Keller and John Piper I know only as figures widely revered in Scotland. Don Carson I recognise as an outstanding scholar; Dick Lucas as a revered biblical expositor. None holds views corresponding exactly to mine; and none deserves the highly selective treatment of their ministries handed out here by Dr Williams.
