Reader Response
February, 2011
While the "new Calvinists" are big fans of sexual abstinence, as Jessica Warner notes ("The United States of Abstinence," December), they seem to have made peace with alcohol. Such Calvinism favors a far more pronounced theory of human depravity and is beginning to thrive in Baptist circles, which may explain the lower rates of abstinence there than among Pentecostals. Unlike Christian perfectionists, new Calvinists believe they can't entirely escape from sin. Nevertheless,...
