Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714
Subtitle: variety, persistence, and transformation
By: Dewey D. Wallace, Jr
Series: Oxford studies in historical theology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199744831
Subjects: Doctrines; Calvinism; Church history; Reformed Church; History; Theology
Description: Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration. He seeks to overturn conventional cliches about Calvinism: that it was anti-mystical, that it allowed no scope for the ''ancient theology'' that characterized much of Renaissance learning, that its piety was harshly predestinarian, that it was uninterested in natural theology, and that it had been purged from the established church by the end of the seventeenth century. --from publisher description
Notes: Includes bibliographical referencesand index.
Table of contents: title: English Calvinism in a new era; title: Peter Sterry: Calvinist mystic; title: Theophilus Gale: Calvinism and the ancient theology; title: Joseph Alleine: evangelical Calvinism; title: Baxter, Bates, and Howe: Calvinist natural theology and "evidences"; title: John Edwards: Church of England Calvinist.