Vanhoozer writes,
“The church should be the model for the right use of human freedom…” (FT, 334)
Is there a “wrong” use and a “right” use of human freedom in a world in which God ordains “whatsoever comes to pass?” Within Reformed Calvinist thought, “right,” “wrong,” and “free” can only be understood as what God has preordained to occur and therefore Vanhoozer’s statement is incoherent. Within the Calvinist context, to write about the “right use of human freedom” becomes meaningless. These are distinctions of moral responsibility, and moral responsibility is only coherent in the context of libertarian freedom. Moral responsibility cannot be coherently accounted for from within Vanhoozer’s theistic determinism. Again, the point is that all Calvinists, including Vanhoozer here, speak incoherently in relation to their own theological beliefs.
The Truth of the Gospel 