Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 : variety, persistence, and transformation

369 Pages·2011·1.221 MB·English

by  Wallace, Dewey D

Shapers of English Calvinism,
1660–1714
OXFORD STUDIES IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY
Series Editor
David C. Steinmetz, Duke University
Editorial Board
Irena Backus, Université de Genève
Robert C. Gregg, Stanford University
George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame
Wayne A. Meeks, Yale University
Gerhard Sauter, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Susan E. Schreiner, University of Chicago
John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame
Geoffrey Wainwright, Duke University
Robert L. Wilken, University of Virginia
THE UNACCOMMODATED CALVIN GOD’S IRISHMEN
Studies in the Foundation of a Theological Tradition Theological Debates in Cromwellian Ireland
Richard A. Muller Crawford Gribben
THE CONFESSIONALIZATION OF HUMANISM REFORMING SAINTS
IN REFORMATION GERMANY Saint’s Lives and Their Authors in Germany, 1470–1530
Erika Rummell David J. Collins
THE PLEASURE OF DISCERNMENT GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS ON THE TRINITY
Marguerite de Navarre as Theologian AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
Carol Thysell In Your Light We Shall See Light
REFORMATION READINGS OF THE Christopher A. Beeley
APOCALYPSE THE JUDAIZING CALVIN
Geneva, Zurich, and Wittenberg Sixteenth-Century Debates over the Messianic Psalms
Irena Backus G. Sujin Pak
WRITING THE WRONGS THE DEATH OF SCRIPTURE AND THE RISE OF
Women of the Old Testament among Biblical BIBLICAL STUDIES
Commentators from Philo through the Michael C. Legaspi
Reformation
THE FILIOQUE
John L. Thompson
History of a Doctrinal Controversy
THE HUNGRY ARE DYING A. Edward Siecienski
Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia ARE YOU ALONE WISE?
Susan R. Holman Debates about Certainty in the Early Modern Church
RESCUE FOR THE DEAD Susan E. Schreiner
The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early EMPIRE OF SOULS
Christianity Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth
Jeffrey A. Trumbower Stefania Tutino
AFTER CALVIN MARTIN BUCER’S DOCTRINE OF
Studies in the Development of a Theological JUSTIFICATION
Tradition Reformation Theology and Early Modern Irenicism
Richard A. Muller Brian Lugioyo
THE POVERTY OF RICHES CHRISTIAN GRACE AND PAGAN VIRTUE
St. Francis of Assisi Reconsidered The Theological Foundation of Ambrose’s Ethics
Kenneth Baxter Wolf J. Warren Smith
REFORMING MARY KARLSTADT AND THE ORIGINS OF THE
Changing Images of the Virgin Mary in Lutheran EUCHARISTIC CONTROVERSY
Sermons of the Sixteenth Century A Study in the Circulation of Ideas
Beth Kreitzer Amy Nelson Burnett
TEACHING THE REFORMATION READING AUGUSTINE IN THE REFORMATION
Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529–1629 The Flexibility of Intellectual Authority in Europe,
Amy Nelson Burnett 1500–1620
THE PASSIONS OF CHRIST IN HIGH-MEDIEVAL Arnoud S. Q. Visser
THOUGHT SHAPERS OF ENGLISH CALVINISM, 1660–1714
An Essay on Christological Development Variety, Persistence, and Transformation
Kevin Madigan Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.
Shapers of English
Calvinism, 1660–1714
Variety, Persistence, and Transformation
dewey d. wallace, jr.
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Wallace, Dewey D.
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 : variety, persistence, and transformation / Dewey D.
Wallace, Jr.
p. cm.—(Oxford studies in historical theology)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-974483-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. England—Church history—17th century 2. England—Church history—18th
century 3. Calvinism—England—History—17th century. 4. Calvinism—England—History—
18th century. 5. Reformed Church—Doctrines—History—17th century. 6. Reformed
Church—Doctrines—History—18th century. 7. Theology—England—History—17th
century. 8. Theology—England—History—18th century. I. Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgments, ix
Introduction, 3
1. English Calvinism in a New Era, 9
2. Peter Sterry: Calvinist Mystic, 51
3. Theophilus Gale: Calvinism and the Ancient Theology, 87
4. Joseph Alleine: Evangelical Calvinism, 121
5. Baxter, Bates, and Howe: Calvinist Natural Theology
and “Evidences”, 167
6. John Edwards: Church of England Calvinist, 205
Conclusion, 243
Abbreviations for Notes and Bibliography, 247
Notes, 249
Bibliography, 315
Index, 345
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Acknowledgments
A book that has been gestating for as long as this one accumulates a
great many debts owed to those who helped me bring it to birth. The
staffs of many libraries have been helpful as I pursued my research,
including those of the British Library, the Lambeth Palace Library, the
Library of the Warburg Institute, and Doctor Williams’s Library, all in
London, the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the Firestone
Library of Princeton University, the Speer Library of Princeton
Theological Seminary, the Library of the Virginia Theological
Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, and in Washington, DC, the Folger
Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, the American University
Library, the Library of the Wesley Theological Seminary, and the
Gelman Library of George Washington University. Particular acknowl-
edgment is due to the library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
University, and to the late Frank Stubbings and Peter Jackson, who
facilitated my use of the Peter Sterry manuscripts housed there.
Thanks are also due to the University Facilitating Fund of George
Washington University for Research Grants and to the National
Endowment for the Humanities for a Travel to Collections Grant.
For encouragement and conversations regarding this project in
its early stages I am indebted to Joseph W. Martin, Donald McKim,
Rogers B. Miles, Ted Underwood, and the late Richard L. Greaves.
Lunchtime conversations with two of my George Washington
University colleagues, Alf Hiltebeitel and Harry E. Yeide, gave me an
opportunity to clarify some of my ideas, even if they had to listen to a