TULIP an acrostic that has made much bickering for the Reformed tradition and has contributed significantly to the confusion about Calvin and Calvinism. It is quite unusual and a-historical to associate a particular document written in the Netherlands in 1618-19 with the whole of Calvinism and then to reduce its meaning to TULIP. As Richard Muller, a leading Reformed Scholar, says, "More seriously, there is no historical association between the acrostic TULIP and the Canons of Dort. As far as we know, both the acrostic and the associated usage of "five points of Calvinism" are of Anglo-American origin and do not date back before the nineteenth century."
A Critique of TULIP Usage in Reformed Theology
A Critique of TULIP Usage in Reformed…
A Critique of TULIP Usage in Reformed Theology
TULIP an acrostic that has made much bickering for the Reformed tradition and has contributed significantly to the confusion about Calvin and Calvinism. It is quite unusual and a-historical to associate a particular document written in the Netherlands in 1618-19 with the whole of Calvinism and then to reduce its meaning to TULIP. As Richard Muller, a leading Reformed Scholar, says, "More seriously, there is no historical association between the acrostic TULIP and the Canons of Dort. As far as we know, both the acrostic and the associated usage of "five points of Calvinism" are of Anglo-American origin and do not date back before the nineteenth century."