Audio from “Remembering John Calvin” Conference Now Available
Panel Discussion at “Remembering John Calvin”
conference sponsored by AFCBS.
Photo by John Gill.
This mini-conference celebrating the 500 year anniversary of John Calvin’s birth was held on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 from 9am - Noon. There were three lectures by Dr. Shawn Wright, Dr. David Puckett, and Dr. Michael Haykin focusing on various aspects of Calvin’s life and thought. You may now download the MP3s of the conference below:
- Session 1: “John Calvin as Pastor” (MP3)
Dr. Shawn Wright - Session 2: “John Calvin as Preacher and Teacher” (MP3)
Dr. David Puckett - Session 3: “John Calvin as Missionary Advocate” (MP3)
Dr. Michael Haykin - Panel Discussion
Led by Steve Weaver and featuring responses from all three speakers
Posted by Steve Weaver, Research and Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Andrew Fuller Center for Baptist Studies, Dr. Michael A.G. Haykin.
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April 30th, 2009 at 4:36 am
Many thanks for putting these talks on the website. I will listen to them over the next few days and put a link on my Calvin blog. I am reading and blogging the Institutes all through 2009 at: http://martynlink.wordpress.com/
Thanks again,
Martyn
April 30th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Photograph by John Gill! Really?
April 30th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Ron,
Really!
Steve
April 30th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Wow…this proves Providence is all-encompassing, even down to the oddest details. I guess when John Wesley applied, you turned him down?!
April 30th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
The Andrew Fuller Center for BAPTIST Studies. Strange that the first thing I encounter is the audio from “Remembering John Calvin” Conference.
Let`s see. If memory serves me correctly, he had a man put to death because he denied the Trinity. He also practiced sprinkling, denied a congregational form of church government and believed strongly that church and state should be one.
I wonder what John Broadus, T.T. Eaton and others would have to say about Southern`s love for Mr. Calvin?
Melvin Burris
May 4th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Dear Melvin:
Thanks for dropping by and commenting. On the audio that you refer to, specifically the panel discussion, we reference some of the areas in which we disagree with Calvin, one of them being his advocacy of the use of force. But, you know if we wrote off everyone with whom we had some disagreements there would be very few in the hall of church history. For example, what about all of those Southern Baptist pastors in the 19th century who certainly disagreed with Calvin’s view of the church and state, but who supported the racist institution of American slavery. No, we recognize that we are all to some extent children of our times, sharing in its foibles and follies. He who is without sin may cast the first stone! If you want to follow this further I have just collaborated on a book on Basil Manly Jr and Sr, and the support of slavery by the former is very clear and very wrong! But we honour him as a man of God despite this. Can we not say the same of Calvin despite his errors?
And as for John Broadus : if you read him closely you would find that he was a Calvinist and appreciative of the Genevan theologian! Surprise of surprises, our beloved school’s Abstract of Principles is a Calvinist statement of faith.
Blessings,
Michael Haykin.
May 10th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Thank you so much for making the audio of mini conference on Calvin available. Dr Shawn Wright, in his lecture, mentioned we can email him regarding some notes he can make available to those who request. Kindly mention this request to him. Yes, you may give him my email. Thank you.