The origins of the federal theology in sixteenth-century Reformation thought
By: David A. Weir.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Reformed Church -- History of doctrines -- 16th century.; Reformed Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 16th century.; Theology, Doctrinal -- Germany -- Palatinate -- History -- 16th century.; Reformation -- Germany -- Palatinate.; Palatinate (Germany) -- Church history -- 16th century.
Description: This interpretive analysis traces the Federal theology of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century from its first use by Zacharias Ursinus in 1562 to its flowering in 1590. Weir examines its origins, the implications it has held for Reformed thinking, and how the theology has profoundly affected church and state, the sacraments, the Puritan doctrine of conversion, the Christian Sabbath, and the doctrine of justification and Christian ethics.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [196]-223.
"The Franks S. and Elizbeth D. Brewer Prize Essay of the American Society of Church History."
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--St. Andrews, 1984.
Includes index.