Scholars disputing the identity of the Church of England during the
late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries describe it as
either forming a Calvinist consensus or partaking of an Anglican
middle way steeped in an ancient catholicity. Debating Perseverance
argues that these conversations have given insufficient attention
to the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints (the belief that
a person who is saved can never be lost), which became one of the
most distinctive doctrines of the Reformed tradition. In this book,
Jay Collier sheds light on the influence of the early church and
the Reformed churches on the fledgling Church of England by
surveying several debates on perseverance in which readings of
Augustine were involved. Collier begins with a reassessment of the
Lambeth Articles (1595) and the heated Cambridge debates in which
they were forged, demonstrating how readings of Augustine on
perseverance influenced the final outcome of that document. He then
investigates the failed attempt of the British delegation to the
Synod of Dort to achieve solidarity with the international Reformed
community on perseverance in a way that was also respectful of
different readings of Augustine and the early church. The study
returns to English soil to evaluate the Synod of Dort's effect on
the supposedly Arminian Richard Montagu and his strategy to
distance the Church of England from the consensus of the Reformed
churches. It finishes by surveying a Puritan debate that occurred
following England's civil war in which Augustine's teachings on
perseverance continued to influence the way the English made policy
and drafted confessional statements. In surveying these debates,
Collier uncovers competing readings and receptions of Augustine on
perseverance within the English church-one favoring the
perseverance of the saints and the other denying it. Debating
Perseverance recognizes England's struggles with perseverance as
emblematic of its troubled pursuit of a Reformed and ancient
catholicity.
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