Search Results for Calvinistic theology

...Nicholas McDowell Mortalism, the doctrine that the soul sleeps or dies with the death of the body to be reawakened or resurrected at the Last Judgment, was adopted by Luther but became a significant feature of the continental “radical Reformation” rather than of the Calvinist theology that shaped...

..., linking atomistic disorder to catastrophic natural disasters. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Lucy Hutchinson Order and Disorder natural world materialism of Lucretius Calvinistic theology While John Milton's interpretation of Genesis...

... the orthodox atonement theory of reformed churches. In England this can be seen in the work of the most influential English Calvinist, William Perkins (d. 1602). Perkins's A Golden Chaine, or The Description of Theologie never questions Calvin's assumption that the satisfaction demanded by God is punishment...

... the extremities of sophisticated elegiac poetry by learned Calvinist divines of the kind Herbert was. But even for the relatively unlearned, who by their own account had restricted access to books, this pastoral theology fed deep and damagingly into psychic experience. I end with a a single passage from Bunyan's...

... to seventeenth-­century New England. Puritan theology is often seen as focused Herdt / Virtue, Identity, and Agency  9 on obedience to God and thus as comprising an ethic of duty rather than of virtue. But Calvinist theology had a strong doctrine of sanctification...

... within the theologies of Lutheran, Calvinist, and all major Protestant denominations in the sixteenth century The issue is also highlighted on several occasions by Batman in his glosses within The Book of Privy Counsel- ling. In Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.vi he inserts the following note...

... that might offend the Lutheran German and Scandinavian princes, who generally sided with their Calvinist neighbors against the Habsburgs but viewed their theology with suspicion. 4 Meanwhile, James sought to mediate in the brewing conflict between the German state of Bohemia and its titular monarch...

... in the Middle Ages; and Sarah Beckwith has recently read the play as Shakespeare’s commentary on chang- ing theologies of penance.1 John Cox has connected the play more directly with medieval theatrical forms, exploring in particular its links to biblical cycle drama.2 But in addition to recalling...

... in theology and religious practice, see David Aers, Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), 109–81; especially illuminating is the account of the Calvinist teacher Mr. Peacock, who suffers a horrifying crisis...

... of the literal sense of scripture. However, though Hutchinson's writings clearly express her Calvinist thought, they simultaneously demonstrate the close links between Reformed theology, natural theology, and something like a Puritan version of allegorical hermeneutics, not only as a way of reading scripture...

... the poem “Discipline,” Herbert, who as the author of The Country Parson knew well that Reformation theology became political in part through the practice of church discipline, may have been inviting his audience to read the poem politically as well as devotionally...

....: Catholic University of America Press, 2023. ix, 236 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Salazar, Greg A. Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley . Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. xiv, 288 pp. Hardcover, ebook...

... into early modernity as well. Most, if not all, “theologi- cal” doctrinal conflicts are at base contests of jurisdiction and imperium. Doctrine is remarkably simple, unchanging, and conducive to unity; Brandt affirms, after the English bishop Joseph Hall, the truth ofDe “ Paucitate Cre- dendorum...

... theology and polemics diplomacy with France foreign policy political gamesmanship Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 50:3, September 2020 DOI 10.1215/10829636-8626088 © 2020 by Duke University Press Theological Polemics and James I s Diplomacy, 1603 1617 R. Malcolm Smuts University...

... particulars of historical processes are perceived, interpreted, and occluded. They also carefully attend to the place of theology and its diverse traditions in these processes together with its relations to the political imaginary and practices driving what Eamon Duffy memorably calls “the stripping...

... agreement about the ways and means that God communicated with his people. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 early modern English theology divine revelation mystical experience language of ravishment Holy Spirit...

.... Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 212. Renaissance Masters 3. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999. viii, 151 pp.; 1 genealogical table. $22.00. Stewart, Columba. Cassian the Monk. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology...

... concept of “lived religion” of their own. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2025 early modern English spirituality Calvinist beliefs proof of salvation emotions bodily experience In March 1673, a devout London matron and Protestant dissenter by the name...

... Reformation and its Tridentine counterpart involved not just an effort to change theology and implement this in practice. It was an effort to change religious experience. 1 This was a holistic endeavor that embraced sensory elements, from church decoration to religious soundscapes, as well as liturgical...

... and Recusancy in Britain and Ireland: From Reformation to Emancipation . Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, vol. 101. Leiden: Brill, 2022. 664 pp., 36 color illus., 5 maps, 1 table. Hardcover, ebook. Salazar, Greg A. Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career...