Product Details

• Directors: James Gelet
• Producers: The Apologetics Group
• Format: Full Screen, Color, Digital Sound
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: The Apologetics Group
• Run Time: 257 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006B46K8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,612 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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FREE 59 PAGE STUDY GUIDE WITH PURCHASE. What is Calvinism? Does this teaching make man a robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism won't evangelism be stifled, perhaps extinguished? How can we balance God's sovereignty and man's responsibility? What are the differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edward's and a host of evangelists deny the Arminian definition of free will and label it heresy? Why did the Roman Catholic Church condemn the Reformed teaching of predestination and election and embrace free will theology? And why do so many Protestants agree with Rome on this issue? Crammed full of vignettes, analogies and interviews from leading Biblical scholars, church Historians and pastors such as Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. George Grant, Dr. Stephen Mansfield, Dr. Thomas Ascol, Dr. Thomas Nettles, Dr. Roger Schultz, Pastor Walt Chantry, Dr. Joe Morecraft, Dr. Ken Talbot, Pastor Walter Bowie and Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr., this video will explain what the great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon meant when he said "to deny Calvinism is to deny the gospel of Jesus Christ." FREE 59 PAGE STUDY GUIDE WITH PURCHASE.

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61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding Documentary, February 14, 2006

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Kathleen A. Peck "New Review" (MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism (DVD)

I've been a Christian for close to 20 years...all of which time I was Arminian. I shunned the concept of Calvinism because it seemed altogether unjust & perposterous. The Bible is full of countless referrals to 'God's Elect'...this was supposedly God talking about people whom he saw down into the future as accepting His offer of salvation. This documentary exposes this nonsensical myth in the plainest most logical terms possible. The scriptural support for the doctrines of grace are utterly irrefutable & to watch this presentation one cannot help but feel foolish for believing Arminianism & the shaky, weak foundation that 'Free Will' is based on. I am reading Luther's 'Bondage of the Will', a marvellous additon to the Amazing Grace presentation..as well as books by Jonathon Edwards, BB Warfield & Charles Spurgeon on the subject. What most struck me about this presentation was how crystal clear the bible became after realizing Calvin didn't invent anything ..he just penned in his own words...what was already in the bible...it was not an idea he just came up with to refute the Arminians... Augustine the great theologian believed in election long before Calvin was ever born...& it's evident to me now ..that Paul the Apostle most definitely knew his salvation was God's choice...and nothing of his own self. If you plan to buy this...& you're Arminian...as I was...watch it with an open heart & mind...& set aside the natural reaction of "that isn't fair"...without setting that mindset aside..one cannot embrace the Just & Merciful God of the Bible.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most entertaining presentation of the doctrines of grace!!, February 25, 2005

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Daniel Chew (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism (DVD)

This is best documentary I have seen so far, and also the most entertaining. On the day that I've received it, I watch through the entire documentary non stop for ~4 hours+. The presentation of the biblical Christian and Calvinist doctrines of grace unfolds like a detective story, as Eric Holmberg takes the audience on a journey first though the history of the entire monergism/ synergism controversy in the church and how the biblical teaching of salvation is totally antithetical to what passes as most of modern day evangelicalism. In the second part of the documentary, the viewer is taken through Scripture to illuminate God's Word as pertaining to the subject, showing the errors therein the heresy of Arminianism, Semi-Pelagianism, and Pelagianism, ending off with a demonstration of the poisonous fruit of this heresy as worked out in the lives of its adherents and in modern day history. The third part of the show then goes on to show the implications on evangelism and give us guidelines according to Scripture on how to do it.

I would highly recommand this DVD set to all who want to know more about God and about the entire Calvinist/Arminian controversy. In fact, I strongly encourage all Christians everywhere to get it, as I believe that only when God is given the full glory for Man's salvation and only when God is enthroned in salvation and evangelism will God work to bring about awakening and revival, for God 'will not share his glory with another' (Is. 48:11). The marketing techniques of the purpose driven and seeker sensitive churches are just symptoms of the underlying pride of Man thinking he can help God to win souls. Until and unless we repent and realize that God is the only Saviour and we are to follow His ways in evangelism, we will continue to reap false conversions and destroy the church from within.

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Strawman defeated......, November 7, 2004

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Tim Brown (HomewardBooks.Com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism (DVD)

What a refreshing and clear definition of Reformed theology. Never have I seen the absolutely clear and precise presentation of Calvinism, except in book format. If you really want to understand the biblical definition of God (theology), man (anthropology), sin, redemption, election, foreknowledge and quite simply Calvinism, or as C. H. Spurgeon put it "the gospel", then you will want to get this DVD. It was great for my children who are all under 9. They watched with anticipation as Eric Holmberg narrarates through the almost 5 hours of presentation. You get church history concerning the controversy, from Augustine and Pelagius through the Luther/Erasmus debate. I challenge those who are clearly Arminian and those who are Semi- Pelagian, as well as those in much of the SBC who are a mixture of both (Psuedo-Arminians) to examine the video. It will be worth your while. May God grant grace to the viewers of this film that their eyes may be opened to His glory in all its fullness. Amen.