Editing Hyper-Calvinism (section)

==Adherents==
The term "Hyper-Calvinist" is sometimes used as a [[pejorative]]; Jim Ellis suggests that "it seems as if anyone to the right of one's own theological position is fair game to be labeled a hyper-Calvinist."<ref name=Ellis>{{cite journal|last=Ellis|first=Jim|title=What is Hyper-Calvinism?|journal=Reformed Perspectives Magazine|date=April 2008|volume=10|issue=15|url=http://thirdmill.org/newfiles/jim_ellis/jim_ellis.hyper.html|access-date=27 January 2013}}</ref> Notwithstanding this, people who have been described as Hyper-Calvinists include John Skepp (d. 1721),<ref>{{cite book|last=Howson|first=Barry H.|title=Erroneous and Schismatical Opinions: The Question of Orthodoxy Regarding the Theology of Hanserd Knollys (c.1599-1691)|year=2001|publisher=[[Brill Publishers|Brill]]|page=133|isbn=9004119973|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKBY3VuWAsMC&pg=PA133}}</ref> Lewis Wayman (d. 1764),<ref name=Toon3>[[Peter Toon]], ''The Emergence of Hyper-Calvinism in English Nonconformity''. [http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/hypercal2.htm Part Three: The Propagation of Hyper-Calvinism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616165615/http://www.anglicanbooksrevitalized.us/Peter_Toons_Books_Online/History/hypercal2.htm |date=2012-06-16 }}.</ref> [[John Brine]] (d. 1765),<ref name=Toon3 /> and [[John Gill (theologian)|John Gill]] (d. 1771).<ref name=Toon3 /> Additionally, [[The Gospel Coalition]] described the [[Westboro Baptist Church]] of [[Fred Phelps]] as a Hyper-Calvinist church.<ref>{{Cite web|title=9 Things You Should Know About Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church | url=https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/9-things-you-should-know-about-fred-phelps-and-westboro-baptist-church/ | date=March 19, 2014 | first=Joe | last=Carter | access-date=2023-11-02 | website=The Gospel Coalition | language=en-US}}</ref>

David Engelsma notes that his own denomination, the [[Protestant Reformed Churches in America]], has been labelled as "Hyper-Calvinist" for its rejection of the "[[well-meant offer of the gospel]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Radio |url=https://hopeprc.org/radio/ |access-date=2023-04-26 |website=Hope PRC |date=8 January 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> Engelsma disputes this label, and says that Hyper-Calvinism is instead "the denial that God in the preaching of the gospel calls everyone who hears the preaching to repent and believe... that the church should call everyone in the preaching... that the unregenerated have a duty to repent and believe."<ref name=Ellis />