Hyper-Calvinism: Defined By A Hyper-Calvinist
The Baptist Particular Vodcast serves as an analysis of Particular Baptist history and theology from a Hyper-Calvinist point of view.
This Episode: How does one define Hyper-Calvinism? While there are modern and free-lancing definitions, there is also a historic definition which serves as the goal post for the label. In this episode, Jared Smith traces the historical and doctrinal developments from John Calvin during the 16th century to the tenets of Hyper-Calvinism during the 18th century.
(0:03) Introduction
(9:08) Chapter 1—First Level Hyper-Calvinism: From Calvin To The Westminster Confession (1550-1646)
(46:56) Chapter 2—Second Level Hyper-Calvinism: From The Westminster Confession To The Baptist Confession (1646-1689)
(1:29:01) Chapter 3—Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: The Baptist Confession Of Faith And Benjamin Keach’s Covenantal Reform (1689-1704)
(02:14:37) Chapter 4—Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: Benjamin Keach’s Covenantal Reform And John Gill’s Systematic Theology (1704-1771)
(03:29:14) Chapter 5—Third Level Hyper-Calvinism: The “Modern Question” And The Particular Baptist Denominational Split (1785-1815)
The comments made at (1:10:03) regarding Tom Ascol’s view on Confessionalism is an accumulative summary of his statements rather than direct quotation. The viewer is encouraged to watch the Founders Ministries (Sword & Trowel) podcast in full context. Jared takes the view that Ascol’s affirmation that the Bible is not enough for one’s faith—that Biblicists are arrogant and tend to become heretics; that a believer’s default mode should be submission to the confession rather than one’s own understanding of Scripture; that it is a Scriptural imperative for a church to be “Confessional”; that church officers should pledge allegiance to the confession; that preachers are not free to preach outside the bounds of the confession; that the confession serves as guardrails for the Christian life—clearly demonstrate the 1689 Confession is elevated to a status above that of the Scriptures. This is the embodiment of Hyper-Confessionalism.
Jared Smith served twenty years as pastor of a Strict and Particular Baptist church in Kensington (London, England). He now serves as an Evangelist in the Philippines, preaching the gospel, organizing churches and training gospel preachers.
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