Calvinism and its polar opposite, Arminianism, can both be at the extreme ends of theology. Extreme Calvinism teaches that man has absolutely no choice in anything and everything is up to the will of God, from who will be saved and who will not to what color socks I should wear today.
Extreme Arminianism teaches that it is man who holds the complete power of choice and God really has no dominion. It is God who must approach man with His hat in His hand and plead with us to know Jesus. We hold all the cards in this scenario.
On a continuum from Calvinism to Arminianism, I fall much more towards the Calvinist view of thing, but I am not all the way there by any stretch. There is a tension which must be maintained between God chooses and man is responsible. There are too many passages of Scripture (such as in Joshua) where we are the ones commanded to choose whether to follow God or not. You can't just underline those passages with a black highlighter
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