The Five Points of Calvinism | Edwin H. Palmer
Edwin H. Palmer. The Five Points of Calvinism. Baker, 1972. 132 pp.
Palmer’s book is a small summary of Reformed soteriology written as an introduction for the uninformed layman, containing an average of twenty study questions at the end of each chapter. It is not for the theologically astute, although it does have some good insights, especially in the latter chapters. The title of the book can be misleading, because five points cannot adequately express what Calvinism is, and because the five points were not Calvin’s devising (5). The breadth of Calvinism is in a sense as broad as the Bible, and Calvinism is, at its heart, really “an attempt to express all the Bible and only the Bible” (5). Calvinism is not and was not a novelty or an invention, but rather a rediscovery of truths that were for many years absent from the church (6).
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