Baptism and Calvinism: An Informational Examination (James Leo Garrett Jr.

) A second meaning of Calvinism has reference to the entire Reformed theology tradition in general, as distinguished from the Roman Catholic, the Anglican or the Lutheran traditions. This is a somewhat imprecise usage inasmuch as it obscures the role of the Reformer of Zurich, Ulrich Zwingli (1448-1531), who preceded Calvin and was the fountain head of another stream of the reformed tradition. This Reformed tradition did impact the early English Baptists through the Separatist Puritans. (p.5) A third meaning, no longer in common use, takes Calvinism to be the professed teaching of certain 18th-century English Congregationalists and Particular Baptists, a group believing that only the elect could be saved. These teachings we now properly label Hyper-Calvinism. (p.5) The New Hampshire Confession (1833) reflected no clear agreement with Dort. (p.9) Andrew Fuller (1754-1815) supported only two of Dortian Calvinism s five points- limited atonement and irresistible grace. (p.10) Edgar Young Mullins (1860-1928) set a new direction with a Calminian (mixture of Calvinist and Arminian teachings) approach. (p. 12) The Jacob-Esau and Moses-Pharaoh texts (Rom. 9:10-18) are parts of Romans 9-11., which are chapters concerning the destiny of Jewish people, a subject often ignored by those in the Augustinain-Calvinist tradition who deal with these texts as if applicable primarily to Gentiles. (p. 16) Biblical support for perseverance will not be examined, as most Southern Baptists hold to this doctrine. (p.16) From a historical perspective, the only alternative to Dortian Calvinism given serious consideration has often been that of original Arminianism. Accordingly, if you are not a Dortian Calvinist, you must adhere to the views of Dort s 17th-century opponents, the original Arminians or Remonstrates. However logical this may sound,it is not true, for this is not the only alternative namely, the combinig of the elements of Calvinism and Arminianism into what some have called Calminianism. (p.19)