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Predestination, Policy and Polemic : Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War

This important work refutes a currently fashionable consensus, which maintains that the English Civil War can be seen as primarily the result of a Laudian and Arminian assault on a previously predominant Calvinism.
eBook, English, 1992
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992
Church history
1 online resource (352 pages)
9780511520266, 9780521394338, 9780521892506, 0511520263, 0521394333, 0521892503
896165370
Print version:
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The polemics of predestination: William Prynne and Peter Heylyn; 2. The theology of predestination: Beza and Arminius; 3. Early English Protestantism; 4. The Elizabethan church settlement; 5. Elizabeth's church: the limits of consensus; 6. The Cambridge controversies of the 1590s; 7. Richard Hooker; 8. The early Jacobean church; 9. The Synod of Dort; 10. Policy and polemic, 1619–1623; 11. A gag for the Gospel? Richard Montagu and Protestant orthodoxy; 12. Arminianism and the court, 1625–1629; 13. Thomas Jackson; 14. Neile and Laud on predestination; 15. The personal rule, 1629–1640; Select bibliography; Index.
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