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Calvinist missionaries.
If you think that sounds like an oxymoron, you're not alone. Yet
a close look at John Calvin's life, writings, and successors
reveals a passion for the spread of the gospel and the salvation of
sinners.
From training pastors at his Genevan Academy to sending
missionaries to the jungles of Brazil, Calvin consistently sought
to encourage and equip Christians to take the good news of
salvation to the very ends of the earth. In this carefully
researched book, Michael Haykin and Jeffrey Robinson clear away
longstanding stereotypes related to the Reformed tradition and
Calvin's theological heirs, highlighting the Reformer's neglected
missional vision and legacy.
R. Tudur Jones's history of Welsh Congregationalism, which has long
been recognized as the standard and authoritative work in this
field, is made available to English readers in this translation.
Written in an accessible style, this scholarly work describes a key
aspect of Welsh and Welsh-English history, showing how Wales's
religious history is intertwined with the emergence of a national
identity. Over four centuries of religious and social history,
events, characters, and thought are examined, focusing on ways in
which the Congregationalist movement impacted and strengthened the
literary traditions and political consciousness of the Welsh
people.
Grace and Freedom addresses the issue of divine grace in relation
to the freedom of the will in Reformed or "Calvinist" theology in
the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. It focuses on the
work of the English Reformed theologian William Perkins, especially
his role as an apologist of the Church of England, defending its
theology against the Roman Catholic polemic, and specifically
against the charge that Reformed theology denies human free choice.
Perkins and his Reformed contemporaries affirm that salvation
occurs by grace alone and that God is the ultimate cause of all
things, but they also insist on the freedom of the human will and
specifically the freedom of choice in a way that does not conform
to modern notions of "libertarian freedom" or "compatibilism." In
developing this position, Perkins drew on the thought of Reformers
such as Peter Martyr Vermigli and Zacharias Ursinus, on the nuanced
positions of medieval scholastics, and several contemporary Roman
Catholic representatives of the so-called "second scholasticism."
His work was a major contribution to early modern Reformed thought
both in England and on the continent. His influence in England
extended both to the Reformed heritage of the Church of England and
to English Puritanism. On the continent, his work contributed to
the main lines of Reformed orthodoxy and to the piety of the Dutch
Second Reformation.
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