..., and by the relentless, ineluctable focus on the self of the evangelical Christian who must follow that absolute commitment to divine grace alone. jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 evangelical theology Calvinism predestination human virtue early modern elegy Any...

... goostly fode of deuocion inowȝ, so saunt & abounding to the helþe & sauyng of here soules The theology of justi cation operates within a nexus of other theological perspectives on free will and predestination, which are crucial to the soteriology of the reformed churches, and which the Beinecke...

... like the character of God in an allegorical play. The Duke’s phrase “elected him [i.e., Angelo] our absence to supply” evokes in its use of elect the Calvin- ist language of predestination central to the theology of most nonconform- ists and members of the church in Shakespeare’s time.50 The Duke...

... and these other magisterial reformers recognized the impli- cations of mortalist eschatology for both predestination theology and more generally for any sort of established ecclesiastical structure. In Psychopan­ nychia, Calvin (in Stocker’s translation) defines mortalism as a “question of the doctrine...

... with determinate teleologies, we welcome essays with a broad understanding of the concept. Inquiries such as the following would be congruent with the aims of this special issue of JMEMS: relations between versions of free will, predestination, and antinomianism; versions of God emerging in Calvin- ism...

... of free will, predestination, and antinomianism; versions of God emerging in Calvinism with their ethical implications; the abolition of penance as a sacrament; the abolition of late medieval understandings of the Eucharist, that consummation of the sacraments and virtues; the consequences of denigrations...

... it. The legend was of crucial importance in discussions of grace, predestination, and salvation in asserting the primacy of good works. Interpretation of the story usually has Trajan coming back to life to be baptized, so as to salvage the orthodox theology of salvation, but Langland does not mention...

... accords with pas- toral advice concerning predestination.27 The conflict over readiness and willfulness, in fact, appears in Salve Deus just a few verses later in the same episode. Knowing that, like the poet herself, the disciples intended to honor their savior even though they failed...

... strikingly contrasts with James Simpson's Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents . 9 For Simpson, distinctively Reformation hermeneutics involved an innovative and violent fusion of double predestination and a thoroughly literalistic reading of scripture. Unlike Steinmetz...

... Press, 2010. xxv, 374 pp. $29.95. [Anglo- ­Saxon texts with facing-­page English prose translations.] Gottschalk, of Orbais. Gottschalk and a Medieval Predestination Contro- versy: Texts Translated from the Latin. Translated and edited by Victor Genke and Francis X. Gumerlock. Mediaeval...

...; my emphasis) The Father’s Arminian teaching in Paradise Lost is echoed at length and emphatically in the Christian Doctrine.6 God predestines only in a general sense. Rather than choosing who will receive grace and thus believe, Mil- ton’s God predestines to salvation any and all who freely...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45:2, May 2015 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2880911  © 2015 by Duke University Press she is the dedicatee of his Defence of Election (which argues for a relatively moderate version of Calvinist teaching on predestination).4 But now his “dearest sister in the Lord...

... hold important implications for Christian salvation within lollard theologies, as they did, of course, in mainstream views. Wyclif, however, distinguished between the predestined and the foreknown, and he argued that the true church was independent of the institutional one. 31 One lollard tract...

... legalism bound up in late medieval penance, and they were thus challenges consistent with more familiar issues of Protestant and Catholic schism: justification by faith alone and predestination; tran- substantiation; the mediating role of saints and angels; the hierarchy of the church...

... and “trentals,” which are triennial masses. Crowley is less interested, then, in attacking “workes” from a perspective that we might identify as Protestant, “justification by faith alone” or predestination, and less interested in defining the proper relationship between works and faith, as Tyndale...

... Publications, Western Michigan University, 2016. 402 pp. Paper $29.95. [Medieval French verse texts with facing-­page English verse translations.] Gusmão, Alexandro de. The Story of the Predestined Pilgrim and His Brother Reprobate [A história do Predestinado Peregrino e seu irmão Precito]. Trans...

...- lage] (1093–94). “Pagans are wrong and Christians are right.” The difference is foun- dational: Marsile is predestined to come to a bad end because he “serves Mahumet and prays to Apollin” [Mahumet sert e Apollin recleimet] (8). Yet the insistence...

... into the history of puritan radicalism, representing the most extensive Reformed response to the onslaught of anti-puritan literature in the late sixteenth century.] Jansen, Cornelius. The Predestination of Humans and Angels: Augustinus, Tome III, Book IX . Translated by Guido Stucco. Early Modern Catholic...

..., as presented by revision- ists such as Christopher Haigh, was alien and forbidding, especially in the guise of predestination and its renewed insistence upon moral asceticism. It faced an uphill struggle to implant itself successfully in the infertile soil Walsham...

... forcefully within a few years, in his fierce debate with Erasmus about reading, moral effort, and predestination.43 This is what he says in The Freedom of a Christian: Should you ask how it happens that faith alone justifies and offers us such a treasure of great benefits without works...