One of the reasons I am critical of the movement New Calvinism and its leader such as Timothy Keller, is that I am opposed to religious syncretism.
As Christians from Reformed/Presbyterian h***e churches in China, we all have seen with our own eyes how the g****n***t in China promoting religious syncretism, namely the Sinicization of Christianity (syncretising Christianity with Chinese culture and political ideology, making Christianity “Chinese”). The version of “Christianity” the Thr**-S*** “Church” has is nothistoric Christianity, and they profess a different “Christ”.
Similarly, the version of “Calvinism” the New Calvinism possesses is not historic Calvinism/confessionally Reformed religion, but an Americanised one, a culturally syncretised one. Such an Americanised Evangelical religion is marked by its continuationism/Pentecostalism in its doctrine of revelation, its Dispensationalism in its Bibliology, its Anabaptism in its sacramentology, and its Donatism in its ecclesiology. And those four “isms” can be vividly identified in the theology and practice of this New Calvinist movement. (Even the Americanised Presbyterian Timothy Keller is happy to cut out Paedobaptism from his NEW city catechism becausethe OLD city is not to his liking, not to mention his Baptist allies.)
Perhaps there is no persecution in America and the West which is similar to that in China, but Satan is doing the similar work to diminish the Gospel, to impair the beauty of the wholeness of the Reformed systematic, through religious syncretism, namely, urging us to give up our history and OLD confessions, instead, to embrace a culturally comfortable and dialectically friendly NEW version of faith.#reformeddowngrade
Again, I recommend to you R. Scott Clark’s articles.