Amazing Grace - The History & Theology of Calvinism

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Just what is "Calvinism?" Does this teaching make man a deterministic robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism, won't evangelism be stifled, perhaps even extinguished? How can we balance God's sovereignty and man's responsibility? What are the differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards and a host of renowned Protestant evangelists deny the Arminian definition of free will and label it heresy? Why did the Roman Catholic Church condemn the Reformed teaching of predestination and election and embrace free will theology? And why do so many Protestants, perhaps unwittingly, agree with Rome on this issue?

Amazing Grace:The History and Theology of Calvinism is the first video documentary that answers these and other related questions. This fascinating three-part, four-hour presentation is detailed enough so as to not gloss over the controversy. At the same time, it is broken up into ten "Sunday-school-sized" sections to make the rich content manageable and accessible for the average viewer.

Part One explores the history of the debate. It begins with the pivotal dispute between Augustine and Pelagius and continues through the semi-pelagian controversy; focusing particularly on the debate between Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus. Many viewers will be shocked to discover that free-will theology was NOT the doctrine of the Reformation but instead the teaching of an increasingly apostate Roman Catholic Church. The history section ends with a definitive historical explanation of the issues that arose during the Calvinist/Arminian controversy. By examining the five points of Arminianism and the Synod of Dort's response, the viewer will clearly see that the Protestant Church understood how the Gospel would be compromised if Arminianism prevailed.

Part Two opens the Word of God, our ultimate authority for life and faith. The five points of Arminianism are put on trial as what would later come to be known as the "five points of Calvinism" are clearly and forcefully presented.

Part Three asks and answers the provocative question: If Calvinism is true, if God is absolutely sovereign; then why should we evangelize? It also explores the vital issue of how to and to whom the gospel should be presented so as to be faithful to the great doctrines of God's sovereignty, man's depravity, and the miracle of amazing grace.

Rich in graphics, dramatic vignettes, and biblical analogies, Amazing Grace - The History and Theology of Calvinism also features many of the finest reformed thinkers and pastors of our time: Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. George Grant, Dr. Stephen Mansfield, Dr. Thomas Ascol, Dr. Thomas Nettles, Dr. Roger Schultz, Pastor Walt Chantry, Dr. Joe Morecraft, Dr. Ken Talbot, Pastor Walter Bowie and Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr..

Come learn what the great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon meant when he said, "...to deny Calvinism is to deny the gospel of Jesus Christ."

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[b1foschiefs]

@NiceneCouncilcom Oh no problem. I appreciate your videos, I wish your documentary were free though. God bless.

[NiceneCouncilcom]

@b1foschiefs I apologize. Jim has not continued in the conversation. I saw your comment and his name there, not yours. I misread and apologize.

[b1foschiefs]

@NiceneCouncilcom I am confused here. My comment was directed toward Jim, who denied that the "gospel evangelists" were among the ones who saw the resurrected Christ. I didn't believe that the 15th chapter of Corinthians needed any exegesis to refute his statement, because in those verses(5-8), Paul is pretty clear about those who had seen Him. I am fully prepared to give an exegesis on the whole chapter, but the part I was referring to needed none.

[b1foschiefs]

@jimtrueblue99 I dont mean to pry into your conversation, but this statement you make is false. Read the 15th chapter of Corinthians, you will see there that all the 12 apostles, including Paul, and at least 500 others saw the resurrected Christ. That includes Paul, who wrote the epistles, John, and John who wrote 3 epistles and the gospel of John. They died for what they believed, for what they had witnessed, not for what someone had told them.

[motibi]

To ARMINIANS -Romans 11:32 "for God has shut up all to unbelief, that he might have mercy on all".

To CALVINISTS -1 Timothy 4:10"for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of ALL MEN ESPECIALLY y of those believing."

DOUBTERS I Cor. 15:23-28"But every man in his own order:..For He must reign until He has put all enemies under His feet..last enemy...destroyed is DEATH... Son also Himself be subject unto Him..that God may be ALL IN ALL"

[NiceneCouncilcom]

@jimtrueblue99 Actually he does. See 1 John 1:1-3. He claims to have witnessed the Word of life Himself. The Word is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ. John also speaks of the Word at the beginning of his gospel in chapter 1. He notes in 1 John that he saw, heard and handled Christ. So yes he was a first century eyewitness, not a long time separated from the events writer.

[NiceneCouncilcom]

@jimtrueblue99 Jim I'm glad to hear that. Then what do you base your belief in the resurrection on? Let's start there and work our way forward please:)

[jimtrueblue99]

@NiceneCouncilcom I believe in the resurrection and I find everything in Calvinism to be preposterous. Of course a number of people experienced the resurrected Jesus. However, the gospel evangelists were not among them. They wrote long after these events. They never claim to have been participants in anything they write about.

[jimtrueblue99]

@NiceneCouncilcom What precisely does I John’s author claim to be a witness of? He never writes about events. He never writes “I am one of the original 12 disciples and I saw Jesus in the flesh.” Wouldn’t you if you were a disciple? The entire letter is a miscellaneous theological discourse that anybody could have written. It’s standard stuff. Further the letter is anonymous. The attribution to somebody named John (which by the way doesn’t imply the disciple John) is traditional.

[NiceneCouncilcom]

@jimtrueblue99 So Jim, if i show you that John in his epistle said just such things and then you say, "Well you don't know that was the same guy that wrote the gospel of John", that somehow substantiates you claim here? Really? that is the best you can give me? He claims to be an eyewitness. Fine, you don't want to believe it's the apostle John? then deal with the issue at hand, the writer's claim and then the writer's teaching on the issue.