{"id":40012,"date":"2018-02-26T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40012"},"modified":"2018-02-26T07:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T12:18:41","slug":"podcast-216-bignons-defense-of-calvinism-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-216-bignons-defense-of-calvinism-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 216 &#8211; Bignon&#8217;s Defense of Calvinism &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9404\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40012-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities216.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities216.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities216.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities216.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=40012-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities216.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities216.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-40014\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bignon-excusing-sinners-and-blaming-god.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"372\" \/><strong>Does God&#8217;s unchangeable plan for his cosmos specify every last event that shall occur in it?<\/strong> Does he unilaterally ordain all that shall come to pass, including your sins? Is all that occurs <em>exactly<\/em> according to God&#8217;s secret will, though not in line with his revealed will? This view can be called <strong>&#8220;theological determinism,&#8221;<\/strong> and when it is added to some doctrines about election, grace, and salvation, it is often called &#8220;<strong>Calvinism<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the trinities podcast, the first part of my conversation with <strong>Dr. Guillaume Bignon<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Excusing-Sinners-Blaming-God-Responsibility\/dp\/1532618654\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1519612296&amp;sr=8-1\"><em><strong>Excusing Sinners and Blaming God<\/strong>: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil<\/em><\/a>. This book is a sophisticated, argument-packed defense of Calvinism against two sorts of objections commonly given by non-Calvinists (aka &#8220;Arminians&#8221;): that it takes away our responsibility for our sins, and wrongly blames God. It draws on a lot of recent work in analytic philosophy and in analytic theology, and adds some formidable new arguments to the conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bignon discusses his conversation, his commitment to Calvinistic theology, and some differences among Calvinists concerning human freedom and &#8220;mystery.&#8221; Dr. Bignon then defines the<strong> important terms of these debates<\/strong>, such as &#8220;determinism,&#8221; &#8220;libertarianism,&#8221; and &#8220;compatibilism,&#8221; and of course &#8220;Calvinism.&#8221; We then discuss <strong>the famous passage in Romans 9-10<\/strong> which Dr. Bignon considers to be the clearest teaching in scripture of Calvinist views on divine sovereignty and human responsibility &#8211; claims which in his view make sense only given compatibilism. I briefly challenge that reading of Romans 9, and he responds.<\/p>\n<p>In part 2, next week, Dr. Bignon gives an overview of his many arguments in this book.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Links for this episode:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Excusing-Sinners-Blaming-God-Responsibility\/dp\/1532618654\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1519612296&amp;sr=8-1\"><em><strong>Excusing Sinners and Blaming God<\/strong>: A Calvinist Assessment of Determinism, Moral Responsibility, and Divine Involvement in Evil<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theoloGUI\"><strong>@theoloGUI<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"podcast 82 \u2013 Dr. Oliver Crisp on libertarian Calvinism and universalism\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-82-dr-oliver-crisp-on-libertarian-calvinism-and-universalism\/\">podcast 82 \u2013 Dr. Oliver Crisp on libertarian Calvinism and universalism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"podcast 81 \u2013 Dr. Oliver Crisp on the breadth of Reformed tradition\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-81-dr-oliver-crisp-on-the-breadth-of-reformed-tradition\/\">podcast 81 \u2013 Dr. Oliver Crisp on the breadth of Reformed tradition<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Romans 9:1-10:13<\/li>\n<li>This week&#8217;s thinking music is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Salmo\/Salmo\/SALMO_-_Salmo_-_02_Histoire_dune_truite\">Histoire d&#8217;une truite<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Salmo\/\">Salmo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is compatibilism about human freedom the key to defending Calvinism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,16,75,64,56,9,57,77,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-books","category-divine-attributes","category-evil","category-interview","category-philosophy","category-podcast","category-protestant","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40024,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40012\/revisions\/40024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}