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Calvin and the Reformed Tradition: On the Work of Christ and the Order of Salvation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Richard Muller, a world-class Reformation scholar, examines the relationship of Calvin’s theology to the Reformed tradition, indicating Calvin’s place in that tradition as one of several significant second-generation formulators. Muller argues that the Reformed tradition is a diverse and variegated movement not suitably described either as founded solely on the thought of John Calvin or as a...

redemption of the world, undergirding the indiscriminate preaching of the gospel and the promise that all who believe will be saved. If we leave aside the rather slippery phrases “limited” and “unlimited atonement,” we can draw some more accurate conclusions concerning Calvin’s views on the extent and limitation of Christ’s work in relation to other writers in the Reformed tradition. Calvin taught that the value, virtue, or merit of Christ’s work served as sufficient payment for the sins of all human
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