This work establishes the significance of the thought of Puritan
William Ames (1576-1633) in deepening and systematizing established
Reformation teaching on Christian doctrine and life in a way that
ensured its subsequent development through the early modern period
and beyond. This book argues that William Ames built on existing,
but as yet un-developed and un-codified, thought of Reformed and
Puritan forerunners to construct an early theological system on the
twin pillars of covenant theology and piety. In this exciting new
work, van Vliet expounds Ames' covenantal thinking and demonstrates
that Ames relocates moral theology from the medieval structures of
early, virtue-based, Puritanism, to a Reformed framework anchored
in the Decalogue. This is followed by a demonstration of the
confluence of Ames' concern for Christian living with similar
concerns of seventeenth-century Reformed pastors and thinkers in
the Dutch Republic of the early modern period's post-Reformation
world (Nadere Reformatie), and his influence on early-American
Jonathan Edwards-both directly and through Petrus van Maastricht.
In this persuasive argument, van Vliet radically corrects Amesian
historiography which has minimized his influence.
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