Thursday, June 17, 2010

Noll on the American Revolution and Calvinism

In Christians in the American Revolution, Mark Noll of Notre Dame explains how the American Founding became inimical to ALL FIVE POINTS of Calvinism.

[Update: See here.]

9 comments:

King of Ireland said...

is there anyway to get is right side up?

Tom Van Dyke said...

The crass identification of Patriotism with Christianity was later extrapolated into an identification of America as a Christian country and American citizens as Christians by cultural birthright.

I don't care how famous Noll is. This is a bunch of contentious crap.

King of Ireland said...

How did you read it? It is sideways. If it fixable?

Tom Van Dyke said...

It's sideways, all right.

I'm just surprised that Noll's surprised that Calvinism drifted away from Calvin. it's the nature of Protestantism. Now there's, what was it, 34,000 sects?

King of Ireland said...

I continue to say that many of the founders did not have a problem so much with the Bible it was the doctrines that defied all logic that were handed down by heavy handed dudes like Calvin and Constantine. I still cannot get over the way the Doctrine of the trintiy came into being. What a sham.

Jonathan Rowe said...

You have to save the document. It comes out in PDF form. And then Adobe and "rotate" it for you.

I wish there were a way I could upload it that way, but I couldn't (or at least I haven't yet figured it out).

King of Ireland said...

I just gave up and turned my computer sideways.

Jonathan Rowe said...

If someone can download this and figure out how to save it properly, I'll repost it.

bpabbott said...

Jon,

I rotated the pdf and emailed it to you. Let me know if the rotation survives the email process.