Author: John EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Doctrines Controverted Between Papists and Protestants
Author: John EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Supplement to Gibson's A Preservative Against Popery: Edwards on The doctrines controverted between Papists and Protestants
Author: Edmund GibsonAnti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Simon LewisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192855751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
John Wesley and George Whitefield are remembered as founders of Methodism, one of the most influential movements in the history of modern Christianity. Characterized by open-air and itinerant preaching, eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon, which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually forgotten. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England is the first large-scale examination of the theological ideas of early anti-Methodist authors. By illuminating a very different perspective on Methodism, Simon Lewis provides a fundamental reappraisal of the eighteenth-century Church of England and its doctrinal priorities. For anti-Methodist authors, attacking Wesley and Whitefield was part of a wider defence of 'true religion', which demonstrates the theological vitality of the much-derided Georgian Church. This book, therefore, places Methodism firmly in its contemporary theological context, as part of the Church of England's continuing struggle to define itself theologically.
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714
Author: Dewey D. Wallace Jr.Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199876835
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book 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 clichés 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. In the midst of conflicts between Church and Dissent and the intellectual challenges of the dawning age of Enlightenment, Calvinist individuals and groups dealt with deism, anti-Trinitarianism, and scoffing atheism--usually understood as godlessness--by choosing different emphases in their defense and promotion of Calvinist piety and theology. Wallace shows that in each case, there was not only persistence in an earlier Calvinist trajectory, but also a transformation of the Calvinist heritage into a new mode of thinking and acting. The different paths taken illustrate the rich variety of English Calvinism in the period. This study presents description and analysis of the mystical Calvinism of Peter Sterry, the hermeticist Calvinism of Theophilus Gale, the evangelical Calvinism of Joseph Alleine and the circle that promoted his legacy, the natural theology of the moderate Calvinist Presbyterians Richard Baxter, William Bates, and John Howe, and the Church of England Calvinism of John Edwards. Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 illuminates the religious and intellectual history of the era between the Reformation and modernity, offering fascinating insight into the development of Calvinism and also into English Puritanism as it transitioned into Dissent.
A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts for and Against Popery (published in Or about the Reign of James II.) in the Manchester Library Founded by Humphrey Chetham, in which is Incorporated, with Large Additions and Bibliographical Notes, the Whole of Peck's List of the Tracts in that Controversy, with His References
Author: Chetham's LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Chetham's Library
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Author: Thomas Jones
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Author: Thomas Jones