Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…I don’t know any of these terms. All I know is, I’ve read his books, and I appreciate his metaphysics. As I understand it, which is very imperfectly, the hyper-Calvinists take determinism more seriously. And they think, for instance, that trying to convert people or preach to them is futile, and we shouldn’t even bother doing it because God has settled everything. Well, one thing that Calvinists — perhaps not hyper-Calvinists — have done is produce thousands of volumes of sermons. Obviously, it was a very, very literary, printing press–oriented culture. You can talk about people who have invented some theory that finds no confirmation in Calvin’s own work. He preached several times every week, and did a great deal toward what he considered to be the education of people in the scriptures, so started schools and so on. If somebody takes an idea and runs off with it and call themselves a hyper this or hyper that, it has nothing to do with the source material.…

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