Matthew M. Barrett The Calvinism-Arminianism debate oscillates around several controversial issues, usually surrounding the acronymn TULIP.1 And yet, as B. B. Warfield said long ago, it is irresistible grace, the “I” in TULIP (or as Warfield called it, effectual calling and monergistic regeneration), that is the very “hinge of the Calvinistic soteriology.” Monergism, says Warfield, is the “hall-mark” of Calvinism.2 Therefore, in a real sense, the Calvinism-Arminianism
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