Leif Dixon

Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590-1640 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the doctrine of predestination was publicised and popularised to an extent unparalleled in the history of Christianity. Why was this? How successfully was the doctrine able to mix with other ideas, and to what effect? And did belief in predestination encourage confidence or despair? Practical Predestinarians is a study of the ways in which the doctrine of predestination was understood and communicated by churchmen in late Tudor and early Stuart England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317076711
• Artikelnr.: 44876743

Autorenporträt

Leif Dixon was a British Academy postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has been a lecturer in early modern history at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Predestination in early modern culture: contexts and concepts
William Perkins and the search for certainty
God and Godliness in the thought of Richard Greenham and Richard Rogers
Thomas Wilson: an impractical predestinarian?
Robert Sanderson and the politics of predestination
Preaching predestination, c.1603-c.1625
The theology of death and dying: predestination versus the ars moriendi?
Bibliography
Index.