The Crisis Of Calvinism In Revolutionary England 1640 1660

Author : Andrew Ollerton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 277 pages
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Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781783277735

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The Crisis of Calvinism in Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 by Andrew Ollerton Pdf

This book investigates a puzzling and neglected phenomenon - the rise of English Arminianism during the decade of puritan rule. Throughout the 1650s, numerous publications, from scholarly folios to popular pamphlets, attacked the doctrinal commitments of Reformed Orthodoxy. This anti-Calvinist onslaught came from different directions: episcopalian royalists (Henry Hammond, Herbert Thorndike, Peter Heylyn), radical puritan defenders of the regicide (John Goodwin and John Milton), and sectarian Quakers and General Baptists. Unprecedented rejection of Calvinist soteriology was often coupled with increased engagement with Catholic, Lutheran and Remonstrant alternatives. As a result, sophisticated Arminian publications emerged on a scale that far exceeded the Laudian era. Cromwellian England therefore witnessed an episode of religious debate that significantly altered the doctrinal consensus of the Church of England for the remainder of the seventeenth century. The book will appeal to historians interested in the contested nature of 'Anglicanism' and theologians interested in Protestant debates regarding sovereignty and free will. Part One is a work of religious history, which charts the rise of English Arminianism across different ecclesial camps - episcopal, puritan and sectarian. These chapters not only introduce the main protagonists but also highlight a surprising range of distinctly English Arminian formulations. Part Two is a work of historical theology, which traces the detailed doctrinal formulations of two prominent divines - the puritan John Goodwin and the episcopalian Henry Hammond. Their Arminian theologies are set in the context of the Western theological tradition and the soteriological debates, that followed the Synod of Dort. The book therefore integrates historical and theological enquiry to offer a new perspective on the crisis of 'Calvinism' in post-Reformation England.

Author : Margaret James
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015005341675

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Social Problems and Policy During the Puritan Revolution, 1640-1660 by Margaret James Pdf

Author : Nicholas Tyacke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076001021596

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Anti-Calvinists by Nicholas Tyacke Pdf

Anti-Calvinists traces the rise of Arminianism from Elizabethan times, and argues that the subsequent proscription of Calvinism in the 1620s was a major cause of the civil war that broke out in 1642. As Arminianism triumphed under Charles I, it rekindled Puritan opposition to the established church. The theological dispute between Arminianism and Calvinism--Arminianism promoting the role of the sacraments and the grace they conferred, and Calvinism focusing on the grace of predestination--assumed greater significance as a struggle for control of the church itself. A provocative reinterpretation of the divisions of the Church of England, this work throws new light on the origins of the civil war and the role played by religious rivalry.

Author : Margaret James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:187193552

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Social problems and policy during the Puritan Revolution, 1640-1660 by Margaret James Pdf

Author : Lee Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107320444

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The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America by Lee Ward Pdf

This study locates the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in the philosophical, theological, and political controversies in seventeenth-century England. By examining the quarrel it identifies the source of modern liberal, republican and conservative ideas about natural rights and government in the seminal works of the Exclusion Whigs Locke, Sidney, and Tyrrell and their philosophical forebears Hobbes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Pufendorf. This study illuminates how these first Whigs and their diverse eighteenth-century intellectual heirs such as Bolingbroke, Montesquieu, Hume, Blackstone, Otis, Jefferson, Burke, and Paine contributed to the formation of Anglo-American political and constitutional theory in the crucial period from the Glorious Revolution through to the American Revolution and the creation of a distinctly American understanding of rights and government in the first state constitutions.

Author : Dewey D. Wallace
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199744831

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Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 by Dewey D. Wallace Pdf

Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration, illuminating the religious and intellectual history of the era between the Reformation and modernity.

Author : Margaret James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:67448680

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Social Problems and Policy During the Puritan Revolution 1640-1660 by Margaret James Pdf

Author : Ian Birch
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227906484

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To Follow the Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth by Ian Birch Pdf

To Follow The Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth explores church doctrine among English Calvinistic Baptists between 1640 and 1660. It examines the emergence of Calvinistic Baptists against the background of the demise of the Episcopal Church of England, the establishment by Act of Parliament of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and the attempted foundation of a Presbyterian Church of England. Ecclesiology was one of the most important doctrines under consideration in this phase of English history and this book is a contribution to understanding alternative forms of ecclesiology outside the mainstream National Church settlement. It argues that the development of Calvinistic Baptist ecclesiology was a natural development of one stream of Puritantheology, the tradition associated with Robert Brown, and the English separatist movement. This tradition was refined and made experimental in the work of Henry Jacob, who founded a congregation in London in 1616 from which Calvinistic Baptists emerged. Central to Jacob's ideology was the belief that a rightly ordered church acknowledged Christ as King over his people. The Christological priority of early Calvinistic Baptist ecclesiology will constitute the primary contribution of this studyto the investigation of dissenting theology in the period.

Author : Robert Eccleshall,Michael Kenny
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0719035694

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Western Political Thought by Robert Eccleshall,Michael Kenny Pdf

This is a guide to the vast amount of literature on the history of political thought which has appeared in English since 1945. The editors provide an annotation of the content of many entries and, where appropriate, indicate their significance, controversial nature and readability.

Author : John Coffey,Paul C. H. Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827829

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The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism by John Coffey,Paul C. H. Lim Pdf

'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing how students and scholars might engage with it from new angles and uncover the surprising diversity that fermented beneath its surface. The book explores issues of gender, literature, politics and popular culture in addition to addressing the Puritans' core concerns such as theology and devotional praxis, and coverage extends to Irish, Welsh, Scottish and European versions of Puritanism as well as to English and American practice. It challenges readers to re-evaluate this crucial tradition within its wider social, cultural, political and religious contexts.

Author : Ola Peter Grell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004609983

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Dutch Calvinists in Early Stuart London by Ola Peter Grell Pdf

Author : Harold J. Berman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674252516

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Law and Revolution by Harold J. Berman Pdf

Harold Berman’s masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English Revolution, with particular emphasis on Lutheran and Calvinist influences. Berman examines the far-reaching consequences of these apocalyptic political and social upheavals on the systems of legal philosophy, legal science, criminal law, civil and economic law, and social law in Germany and England and throughout Europe as a whole. Berman challenges both conventional approaches to legal history, which have neglected the religious foundations of Western legal systems, and standard social theory, which has paid insufficient attention to the communitarian dimensions of early modern economic law, including corporation law and social welfare. Clearly written and cogently argued, this long-awaited, magisterial work is a major contribution to an understanding of the relationship of law to Western belief systems.

Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 052128712X

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Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660: Volume 2, Provincial Rebellion by Perez Zagorin Pdf

The survey resumes the comparative history with an analysis of provincial rebellions in Early Modern Europe. It concludes with an extended treatment of the epoch's four major revolutionary civil wars. (Vol. 1 covered Society, States, and Early Modern Revolutions: Agrarian and Urban Rebellions)

Author : Graeme Murdock
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191543289

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Calvinism on the Frontier, 1600-1660 by Graeme Murdock Pdf

This is the first book to examine one of Europe's largest Protestant communities in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society. Calvinism attracted strong support in Hungary and Transylvania, where one of the largest Reformed churches was established by the early seventeenth century. Understanding of this Hungarian Reformed church remains the most significant missing element in the analysis of European Calvinism. The Hungarian Reformed church survived on narrow ground between the Habsburgs and Turks, thanks to support from Transylvanias princes and local nobles. They worked with Reformed clergy to maintain contact with western co-religionists, to combat confessional rivals, to improve standards of education and to impose moral discipline. However, there were also tensions within the church over further reforms of public worship and church government, and over the impact of puritanism. This book examines the development of the Hungarian church within the international Calvinist community, and the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society.

Author : Tai Liu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401024907

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Discord in Zion by Tai Liu Pdf

With the decline of the Whig interpretation of history, historians in the past few decades have re-examined the origins and the nature of the English Revolution from various perspectives. The constitutional conflict 1 between the crown and parliament has been analyzed. The Puritan mind 2 has been explored. Social change in England during the century prior 3 to the outbreak of the Civil War has been anatomized. The composition 4 of the Long Parliament has been dissected. Every student of the English Revolution is now well aware that the crisis in seventeenth-century Eng land, like all other major events in history, was a complex phenomenon in which men as well as ideas, religious convictions as well as economic interests all came into play. For all students of this period, the works of Samuel R. Gardiner, am plified by Sir Charles H. Firth, remain the chief source of knowledge and 1 It should be noted that while former historians from Hallam and Macaulay to G. M. Trevelyan and J R. Tanner all interpreted the English Revolution in terms of the constitution, recent historical scholarship in this respect is more concerned with the evolution and functioning of the constitution rather than the constitutional rights and wrongs of either party in the conflict. See Wallace Notestein, The Winning of the Initiative by the House of Commons (London, 1924); Margaret A.