Against Calvinism

Short review: I think this is a helpful 2 book series. I will post a review of For Calvinism next week. While Olson works hard to show his point, his attempts at being thorough lends itself to repetition. This could have been 50 or so pages shorter. But I am given 4 stars instead of 3 because of the general tone of the book. Michael Horton (author of the For Calvinism) did the introduction and started the book with a real sense of why we need to be civil and appropriate in our discussion.

That being said, what I am learning most is that when we create systems of Christian thought we necessarily create boxes for God. Olson's primary charge is that Calvinism, in trying to prove God's sovereignty, minimizes God's love and grace. The same can be said of pretty much any other theological system. Toward the end, Olson says we need to embrace ‘conundrum' without embracing theological inconsistency. But one person's conundrum that they are quite content to live with, is another's theological inconstancy that they cannot.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/against-calvinism/