Thursday, April 28, 2005

Throwing Out the TULIPs

Timothy George has proposed that we think not of TULIPs but instead of ROSES instead:

Radical depravity

Overcoming grace

Sovereign election

Eternal life

Singular redemption

Roger Nicole, on the other hand, must not like flowers, for he opts to define Calvinism by using a GOSPEL acronym:

Grace

Obligatory grace

Sovereign grace

Provision-making grace

Effectual grace

Lasting grace