Taken from the website Theologica under the heading Calvinist Dispensationalists, I found it interesting.
The theological system known as Calvinism takes its name, of course, from 16th-century Protestant Reformer John Calvin (July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564). His masterful tome was The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
The Five Points of Calvinism, however, developed somewhat later. The first step was that another theologian, Jacobus Arminius (Oct 10, 1560 - Oct 19, 1609), rejected Calvin’s teachings. Then in 1610 Arminius’ students drafted five articles (The Remonstrance) in opposition to Calvin’s theology of salvation. It was in reaction to and rejection of this that in 1619 the Synod of Dort formulated five points of refutation into The Canons of Dort – which since then have come to be known and recognized by the acronym TULIP.
Calvinism has been believed, defended, and propagated by numerous scholars, denominations, mission organizations, schools, and outstanding individuals – too many to list here. The list includes, though, such well-known pastors as Reformed Baptist writer and preacher John Bunyan (Nov 28, 1628 - Aug 31, 1688), Anglican pastor and hymn writer John Newton (Jul 24, 1725 - Dec 21, 1807), Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (Jun 19, 1834 - Jan 31, 1892), pastor and prolific author Arthur W. Pink (Apr 1, 1886 - Jul 15, 1952), and Anglican minister of Westminster Chapel (London) David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Dec 20, 1899 - Mar 1, 1981), as well as missionaries such as Baptist minister and “father of modern missions” William Carey (Aug 17, 1761 - Jun 9, 1834) and American Baptist missionary (to Burma) Adoniram Judson (Aug 9, 1788 - Apr 15, 1850).
The history of the USA demonstrates the great influence of Calvinists – especially in colonial days. The Pilgrims, New England Puritans, New York Dutch, Pennsylvania German, and Southern Huguenots were all strongly Calvinist. Three famous Calvinists stand out from early American history – namely, Puritan preacher Cotton Mather (Feb 12, 1663 - Feb 13, 1728), pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards (Oct 5, 1703 - Mar 22, 1758), and leader in the Great Awakening and Anglican priest George Whitefield (Dec 16, 1714 - Sep 30, 1770). It is estimated that 50-80% of American churches were Calvinistic in 1780 – sometime after their peak influence.
Significantly – especially for this discussion – many (probably most) of the early proponents and adherents of dispensationalism were Calvinists (more or less)! It is generally agreed that the modern formulation and initial propagation of dispensationalism should be credited to John Nelson Darby (Nov 18, 1800 - Apr 29, 1882) and other Plymouth Brethren – all holding to Calvinist soteriology. Trained at Princeton Theological Seminary, Presbyterian pastor James H. Brookes (1830-1897) not only had Darby speak in his pulpit but also trained another famous Calvinist dispensationalist, C. I. Scofield.
Scofield (Aug 19, 1843 - Jul 24, 1921), the editor-in-chief of The Scofield Reference Bible (1909) and co-founder with William L. Pettingill (a Presbyterian, Aug 27, 1886 - Sep 15, 1950) of Philadelphia College of the Bible (1913), was an ordained Presbyterian minister. So was his student Lewis Sperry Chafer (Feb 27, 1871 - Aug 22, 1952); thus, in the Calvinist dispensationalist mold was the school Chafer founded in 1924 (Dallas Theological Seminary) –at least for the first quarter century or so of its history. Others of like theology who were instrumental in starting that school include William L. Pettingill and W. H. Griffith-Thomas (an Anglican, 1861-1924).
