This Week in Calvinism - August 28, 2009

• Carl Gobelman reviews The Doctrines of Grace: Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel.
  
  
• Doug Wilson has an excellent post on Brian McLaren's decision to join Muslims in observing Ramadan.
  
  
• Daniel Townsend offers a thoughtful critique (part 1, part 2) of open theism.
  
  
• In discussing the fact that we can sin without actually committing the act itself, Peter Pike heaps another coal on the Arminian fire.
  
  
• Arminians often equate Calvinism with determinism, saying that it makes God the author of sin. Dominic Tennant argues that Arminians are just as "deterministic" as they accuse Calvinists of being.
  
  
• Halden Doerge, a foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Calvinist blogger, attacks the "false god" (more like straw man) of John Piper.
  
  
• Speaking of John Piper, the Desiring God Conference is coming up September 25–27. This year's theme: With Calvin in the Theater of God.