to do justice to Calvin as a clear and careful thinker. It fails to see the compatibility between particularism and the universal preaching of the gospel. Instead, I prefer to view the two strains in Calvin as a reflection of the Bible’s own antinomy between divine sovereignty and human responsibility.12 I also regard the appeal to these systematic themes as insufficient to decide the question of Calvin’s view on limited/unlimited atonement. The very fact that scholars have to appeal to systematic
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