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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches
The Swiss theologian Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was one of the
most prominent reformers and the founder of the Reformed Protestant
Church in the Swiss Confederation. During the last hundred years
more than 200 titles from his private library have been discovered.
They give an interesting insight into his interests and sources.
The present book contains not only an extensive introduction and a
catalogue of these books and manuscripts, but also an inventory of
the lost works possessed by Zwingli. They open the door to
Zwingli's study and to the intellectual world of an important
reformer.
"Can anything orthodox come from Pentecostalism?" This recasting of
Nathaniel's familiar question from the Gospel is a fair summary of
many modern Christians' assessment of the Pentecostal tradition.
Yet in recent years, a growing number of Pentecostals have been
turning afresh to the ancient, creedal Christian faith. Bishop
Emilio Alvarez has himself been at the forefront of this movement.
In Pentecostal Orthodoxy he introduces the phenomenon, and extends
the project of paleo-orthodox ressourcement (associated with
scholars such as Thomas Oden and Robert Webber) to include orthodox
expressions within Pentecostalism, particularly his own Afro-Latino
Pentecostal movement. This book is a manifesto of sorts, promising
not only to open up the possibility of a genuinely orthodox
Pentecostalism, but to reframe modern ecumenical dialogue as well.
This book investigates a puzzling and neglected phenomenon - the
rise of English Arminianism during the decade of puritan rule.
Throughout the 1650s, numerous publications, from scholarly folios
to popular pamphlets, attacked the doctrinal commitments of
Reformed Orthodoxy. This anti-Calvinist onslaught came from
different directions: episcopalian royalists (Henry Hammond,
Herbert Thorndike, Peter Heylyn), radical puritan defenders of the
regicide (John Goodwin and John Milton), and sectarian Quakers and
General Baptists. Unprecedented rejection of Calvinist soteriology
was often coupled with increased engagement with Catholic, Lutheran
and Remonstrant alternatives. As a result, sophisticated Arminian
publications emerged on a scale that far exceeded the Laudian era.
Cromwellian England therefore witnessed an episode of religious
debate that significantly altered the doctrinal consensus of the
Church of England for the remainder of the seventeenth century. The
book will appeal to historians interested in the contested nature
of 'Anglicanism' and theologians interested in Protestant debates
regarding sovereignty and free will. Part One is a work of
religious history, which charts the rise of English Arminianism
across different ecclesial camps - episcopal, puritan and
sectarian. These chapters not only introduce the main protagonists
but also highlight a surprising range of distinctly English
Arminian formulations. Part Two is a work of historical theology,
which traces the detailed doctrinal formulations of two prominent
divines - the puritan John Goodwin and the episcopalian Henry
Hammond. Their Arminian theologies are set in the context of the
Western theological tradition and the soteriological debates, that
followed the Synod of Dort. The book therefore integrates
historical and theological enquiry to offer a new perspective on
the crisis of 'Calvinism' in post-Reformation England.
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