Editing Reformed Christianity (section)

==== Five Points of Calvinism ====
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{{TULIP}}
Much attention surrounding Calvinism focuses on the "Five Points of Calvinism" (also called the ''doctrines of grace'').<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lawson |first=Steven |date=March 18, 2019 |title=TULIP and The Doctrines of Grace |url=https://www.ligonier.org/blog/tulip-and-doctrines-grace/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121090553/https://www.ligonier.org/blog/tulip-and-doctrines-grace/ |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |access-date=August 5, 2021 |website=Ligonier Ministries |quote=In reality, these five doctrines of grace form one comprehensive body of truth concerning salvation.}}</ref> The five points have been summarized under the [[acrostic]] TULIP.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sproul |first=R. C. |title=What Is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics |publisher=Baker Books |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-8010-1846-6 |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |page=32 |language=en-us}}</ref> The five points are popularly said to summarize the [[Canons of Dort]]; however, there is no historical relationship between them, and some scholars argue that their language distorts the meaning of the Canons, Calvin's theology, and the theology of 17th-century Calvinistic orthodoxy, particularly in the language of total depravity and limited atonement.<ref name="muller 2012">{{cite book |last=Muller |first=Richard A. |title=Calvin and the Reformed Tradition |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2012 |edition=Ebook |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan (US) |pages=50–51 |language=en-us |author-link=Richard A. Muller (theologian)}}
* {{cite magazine |last=Stewart |first=Kenneth J. |date=2008 |title=The Points of Calvinism: Retrospect and Prospect |url=http://www.covenant.edu/docs/faculty/Stewart_Ken/Points%20of%20Calvinism%20Retrospect%20and%20Prospect.pdf#page=2 |url-status=live |magazine=Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology |volume=26 |issue=2 |page=189 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202211255/http://www.covenant.edu/docs/faculty/Stewart_Ken/Points%20of%20Calvinism%20Retrospect%20and%20Prospect.pdf |archive-date=2012-02-02 |ref=none}}</ref> The five points were more recently popularized in the 1963 booklet ''The Five Points of Calvinism Defined, Defended, Documented'' by David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas. The origins of the five points and the acrostic are uncertain, but they appear to be outlined in the [[Counter Remonstrance of 1611]], a lesser-known Reformed reply to the Arminians, which was written prior to the Canons of Dort.<ref>Document translated in {{cite book |last=De Jong |first=Peter Y. |title=Crisis In The Reformed Churches: Essays in Commemoration of the Synod of Dort (1618–1619) |publisher=Reformed Fellowship, Incorporated |year=1968 |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |pages=52–58 |language=en-us |author-link=Peter Y. De Jong}}</ref> The acrostic was used by [[Cleland Boyd McAfee]] as early as circa 1905.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wail |first=William H. |title=The Five Points of Calvinism Historically Considered, [[The Outlook (New York)|The New Outlook]] |year=1913 |pages=104 |language=en-us}}</ref> An early printed appearance of the acrostic can be found in Loraine Boettner's 1932 book, ''The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Boettner |first=Loraine |title=The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination |url=http://www.bloomingtonrpchurch.org/refdocpre/predest.pdf  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527231415/http://www.bloomingtonrpchurch.org/refdocpre/predest.pdf |archive-date=27 May 2014 |access-date=5 December 2013 |publisher=Bloomingtonrpchurch.org |quote=The Five Points may be more easily remembered if they are associated with the word T-U-L-I-P; T, Total Inability; U, Unconditional Election; L, Limited Atonement; I, Irresistible (Efficacious) Grace; and P, Perseverance of the Saints.}}</ref>