Andy Naselli

Thoughts on Theology

Kevin DeYoung

Interview on Keswick Theology

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I recently answered these questions from Kevin DeYoung after he read my book on Keswick theology:

  1. Give us a brief history of the Keswick movement.
  2. Who were some of the significant people involved with Keswick, both those who influenced it and those influenced by it?
  3. I really like how you explain Keswick theology by going through a typical Keswick conference. Would you explain the conference and theology for us?
  4. What are the chief problems with the Keswick view of sanctification?
  5. Where do we still see Keswick’s influence today? Is their’s a common error that resurfaces often in the church? If so, what makes its so attractive?
  6. What projects are you currently working on, either for yourself or for Dr. Carson?

—from “Andy Naselli on Why ‘Let Go and Let God’ Is a Bad Idea”

Related: Let God and Let God? A Survey and Analysis of Keswick Theology

Update on 8/23/2017: My latest book attempts to survey and analyze “let go and let God” theology:

No Quick Fix

How to “sustain meaningful discourse without resorting to name-calling or cowardly equivocation”

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Kevin DeYoung‘s “Defining Discourse Down” in First Things is superb. I benefitted from it even more after re-reading it this evening.

This part hurts the most:

We are all proud. Because I’m proud I get hurt when people disagree with me strongly. Because I’m proud I feel the need to give thirteen qualifications before I make an argument, not usually because I’m a swell guy but because I love for people to love me and loathe for them to dislike or misunderstand me. Because I’m proud I hedge my criticisms so that I won’t have to publicly repent and recant when I go too far and get something wrong. Because we’re proud, protectors of self more than lovers of truth, we often don’t discuss things with candor or with verve.

Read the whole thing—esp. the last four paragraphs.

“Please God, don’t let the New Calvinism ever, ever be about the New Calvinism”

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A good word from Kevin DeYoung:

Here are the two most important things you need to know about the rise of the New Calvinism: it’s not new and it’s not about Calvin. . . . “Please God, don’t let the young, restless, and reformed movement be another historically ignorant, self-absorbed, cooler-than-thou fad.”

Read the whole thing.

Cf. my review of Collin Hansen’s Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist’s Journey with the New Calvinists.