Calvinistic Paths Retraced by Samuel Fisk.
“Calvinistic Paths Retraced” is Samuel Fisk’s sequel to Election and Predestination. While his first book majors on expounding Bible verses, this book hones in on historical events, leading characters in the controversy and denominational doctrines (however, 25 Bible verses are in reality given “expanded treatment”). Fisk very effectively reviews the Calvinistic T.U.L.I.P. acrostic.
The third chapter of this book, showing the inconsistency of a “4-point position”, is well worth reading as is his treatment of the history of the Synod of Dort (1618-1619) . In 238 pages, Fisk quotes around 300 leading authors from the evangelical world, making this volume a “text book” of information on the subject. Chapter 5 – “Bible Translations that Conditioned Men’s Thinking” and Appendix A – “Does Unlimited Atonement Lead to Universalism?” are both worthy of thoughtful consideration.
