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... Press 2015 theology of the Fall and Last Judgment animals and creatures creation resurrection of the body John Bradford and Martin Bucer • • The Restoration of All Things: John...

... name for this is the punishment of sense.” Milton assumes that hell was created with the fall of the rebel angels, before the creation of man, as depicted in his epic; and he is also quite clear that after the resurrection of bodies at the Last Judgment, the damned will suf- fer eternal physical...

... feature of Langland’s way of narrating Christian history), a doctrine and means of universal sal- vation which will turn the Last Judgment into a day of mercy rather than wrath.2 This is not the orthodox view of the power of Christ’s redemptive sacrifice. Traditional theology, in its attempt...

... . It is preceded by Christ I , a grouping of twelve poems also known as the Advent Lyrics , on the coming of Christ, followed by Christ II (also known as Ascension ) on the ascension of Christ into heaven. Christ III 's topic is the Last Judgment, an event that is represented as a series of catastrophes...

... of their allied delegations. When Gomarus invoked Perkins to claim that the British delegation's nuanced reaction to the Arminians betrayed their doctrinal heritage, Carleton asked whether Gomarus was accusing them of “temerity or ignorance” in suggesting that their position “was not according to the judgement...

... hell, humanity's prison house (XX.35–412). Here he makes his oration on redemption of fallen humanity (XX.413–46). Christ promises that at the Last Judgment his merciful redemption will be grounded in recognition of his “kyn,” affirming that he would be “an unkynde kynge” if this were not so...

... as “something God allows to happen,” and the theology underpinning institutionalized penance, which presents sin as “a conscious decision to turn away from God,” deserving of the confessor's scrutiny and judgment. 57 Julian draws the theology of sin developed from her revelations into relation...

... here seems to me thoroughly appropriate in these matters, and I con- cur with him on this particular judgment. 53 Robert W. Jenson, Systematic Theology, Volume 2: The Works of God (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 171. The quotation comes from Jenson’s chapter “The Church’s...

...-­world consequences for this delegalization of penance in early modern chancery courts in England, with their emphasis on judgment ad personam, including all the messy human details that that entailed, rather than judgments rendered ad litteram in accordance with the letter of the law. But Shuger...

... than Cicero was. As Henry Chadwick points out, 206 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 50.2 / 2020 the belief in immortality and the Last Judgment extended the potential audi- ence of shameful acts beyond a person s immediate social context.33 This also explains Ambrose s emergent emphasis...

... judgment, human works and merit are wholly worthless. 3 That central strand of Protestant theology can fairly be described, indeed, as posthuman. 4 Stated as baldly as I have stated it here, however, the case requires some explication of the main carrier of early modernity (i.e., nation-forming...

... dabbles in heresy. Reprobation is a nice guy like John Hittchell, who in the pamphlet Fire from Heaven (1613) is struck down by God's judgment for no apparent reason. 50 Reprobation might be you. The hilarious disclosure of God's retribution can fall at any time, not just upon Jews and carnival...

... in its object, which is no longer the act but . . . the person.” The self, by this account, is conceived as “simultaneously embodied in and anterior to its actions.” A “tit for tat” conception of retribution now repudiated, the “objects of divine judgment are not tats, but people.”23 Shuger gives...

... judgment is ultimately inseparable from an eschatological framework. The result is an engaging and often illuminat- ing narrative of historical decline, punctuated by emphatic local instances of strong moral judgment; yet it is oddly inexplicit about the theological and metaphysical sources...

... point with respect to Julian’s tenth revelation. Indeed, scholars typically see Julian as offering a softer, gen- tler alternative to normative late medieval Christianity, thus crediting her with a more inclusive salvation theology or more loving perspective on judgment. See Nicholas...

..., That is not to say that Calvin devalued eschatology or the Last Judgment; rather, as Heinrich Quistrop has pointed out, he believed that “Last Things” were the “tower” of the cathedral rather than its altar; Calvin’s Doctrine of the Last Things, trans. Harold Knight (London: Latterworth...

...- mends or disallows, weighing them not in the scales of common judgment but of true and right reason, according to the weights and by the standard of the Scripture. (Story Books, 2) Except for the last clause, this could be a Cartesian proposal. By the 1650s, such gestures...

...Elizabeth Papp Kamali In medieval English texts, a common refrain, drawn from scripture, urged that only God could search the mind and heart of a sinner, and that those who judge others might face their own grave judgment on the last day. This sits uneasily with the task of issuing a felony verdict...

... not interested in establishing causality in either direction, from politics to doctrine or doctrine to politics. For the purposes of this essay, I will accept Raymond Williams’s judgment that material and cultural production are only formally separable, thus working on the assumption that the way in which...

...Kate Crassons Duke University Press 2007 a The Challenges of Social Unity: The Last Judgment Pageant and Guild Relations in York Kate Crassons...