Heretics Within : Anthony Wotton, John Goodwin, and the Orthodox Divines

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parnham, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puritans--History--Doctrines--17th century--England.

Puritans.

England--Church history--17th century.

England.

Wotton, Anthony, 1561?-1626.

Wotton, Anthony.

Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.

Goodwin, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (578 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The polemical revisionary writings of 17th-century puritan pastor Anthony Wotton on topics such as Christ's redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God's saving grace and the moral law, faith and works, and the gracious covenant and legal covenant-as well as the bitter doctrinal controversy that they stimulated-are examined in this scholarly study. The book also traces the Wottonian complexion of the theology of John Goodwin, who became, over the course of a 30-year period, a prolific exponent of unorthodox notions-p

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. George Walker's Woes: Controversies with Anthony Wotton and John Goodwin; Truth and Heresy; The Wotton Affair (i): Controversy Conducted and Reported; The Wotton Affair (ii): Discovering Truth and The Problems of Heresy Making; The Walker-Goodwin Controversy: Passion Versus Heresy; Goodwin's Truth: Newly and Incrementally Discovered; Full Circle from 1614?; PART I: Anthony Wotton and The Orthodox Divines; Chapter 2. Masters of Law and Grace: Wotton's Protestant Authorities

Protestant Authorities (i): Law and GraceProtestant Authorities (ii): Conjuring with Imputation; Chapter 3. "Flint and Steele": Wotton's Early Controversies and The Specter of Socinus; Soteriological Matters, c. 1600-c. 1614; Faustus Socinus; Theology in Court; Chapter 4. Revision in Print: Wotton's De reconciliatione peccatoris; Law, Grace, and The Covenants; De reconciliatione peccatoris (i): The Structure of Justification; De reconciliatione peccatoris (ii): Faith, Merit, and Imputation; De reconciliatione peccatoris (iii): Doctrinal Controversy

Chapter 5. Wotton's Soteriological Revision: Trajectories of Thought, c. 1611-1624George Walker: Eyes Open, Ears Closed; De reconciliatione peccatoris: Assessment; Soteriological Trajectories: c. 1611-1624; Calvin, Perkins, Wotton; PART II: John Goodwin and The Orthodox Divines; Chapter 6. Goodwin's Grace: Free and Full; After Wotton; Thomas Edwards' Monster; Antinomian Goodwin (i): "Satisfactory Letter"; Antinomian Goodwin (ii): Christ Lifted Up; Chapter 7. Goodwin's Imputatio Fidei: The Demolition and Rebuilding of Justification; The Skirmish of 1641

Imputatio Fidei (i): The Unjumbling of Law and FaithImputatio Fidei (ii): Justification by Covenant; Imputatio Fidei (iii): Christ's Righteousness and The Unraveling of Soteriology; Imputatio Fidei (iv): The "Master Veyne" of Adam's Sin; Imputatio Fidei (v): Justifying Grace; "Gravell" and "Wooll" for Goodwin: The Big Rebuttals of George Walker and Henry Roborough; Rubbery Speech; Chapter 8. Truth's Quarrels: Goodwin at War, 1642-1650; Avowing Wotton: Richard Baxter and William Pynchon; Between Imputatio Fidei and Redemption Redeemed (i): Justification

Between Imputatio Fidei and Redemption Redeemed (ii): Grace Ministered and DisputedBetween Imputatio Fidei and Redemption Redeemed (iii): Debates with Dogmatists; Chapter 9. Of Things Eternal and Temporal: Goodwin's Redemption Redeemed; The Impediment of William Prynne's Perpetuitie; Redemption Redeemed (i): Openings-Prefatory and Metaphysical; Redemption Redeemed (ii): Universal Redemption; Redemption Redeemed (iii): "Eate, Drink, and be Merry"-The Peril of Perseverance; Redemption Redeemed (iv): Fearful Assurance?; Chapter 10. Copernican Goodwin; or, Walking with Arminians

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78284-135-0