Bisschop's bench : contours of Arminian conformity in the Church of England, c.1674-1742 / Samuel Fornecker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fornecker, Samuel D., author.

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford studies in historical theology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church controversies--Church of England--History--17th century.

Church controversies.

Church controversies--Church of England--History--18th century.

Arminianism--England--History--17th century.

Arminianism.

Arminianism--England--History--18th century.

Church controversies--Church of England.

Church of England--History--17th century.

Church of England.

England--Church history--17th century.

England.

Church of England--History--18th century.

England--Church history--18th century.

Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.

Patrick, Simon.

Genre:

Church history.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 237 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In 1668, having for three years toiled in ministry at St Paul's, Covent Garden, following the great plague outbreak of 1665, the future bishop of Chichester and of Ely, Simon Patrick, published an anonymous work entitled, A Friendly Debate Betwixt a Conformist and a Non-Conformist. While many conformist ministers had fled the city rather than endure the epidemic in their posts, Patrick had stayed, watching as nonconformists streamed to London to tend its deserted flocks. Patrick thus had the rare distinction of standing nose-to-nose with nonconformists on the moral high ground, at a juncture of acute importance for the restored Church. He could not have failed to grasp, therefore, that A Friendly Debate, stamped as it was by its political and ecclesiological moment, served an apologetic purpose. Bearing the imprimatur of Thomas Tomkyns, chaplain and episcopal licenser to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Gilbert Sheldon, and touting its anonymous author's moral credentials-Patrick billed himself as "A Lover of [the City], and of pure Religion"-the more cynical sort of reader would have had difficulty regarding the work as anything other than an attempt to reassert the pastoral integrity of the Church by undermining the moral luster of its rivals. To that end, Patrick took as the centerpiece of his argument the depiction of nonconformists as sophistic, "Calvinian" dogmatists, who sought to obscure plain Christian doctrine in favor of speculative subtleties, thereby betraying "the religion of Jesus Christ" for "a great many words and phrases." Developing the de rigueur Restoration diatribe against interregnum "Calvinism," Patrick opined that nonconformists "were much in love with new-minted words, in which they thought there were great mysteries concealed," with the result that they "heaped up one [expression] upon another... till none knew what Christianity was"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

1.1. Episcopalian or Episcopian?

1.2. "The Sistematicall and Calvinisticall Spirit"

1.3. Received Perspectives on the Theology of the Later Stuart Church of England

1.4. A Revisionist Proposal for the Study of Post-Restoration English Arminianism

1.5. Issues of Identification and Definition

1.6. The Path Ahead

2. Episcopian Divinity in Restoration Cambridge: Joseph Beaumont, Simon Episcopius, and the Nova Theologia

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The Elements of Beaumont's Soteriology

2.3. Authority and the Ministry: The Critical Reception of Episcopius in Beaumont's Proelectiones de Libertate Christiana

2.4. Conclusion

3. A Merely "Specifick" Trinity? Reactions to William Sherlock in Context

3.1. Revisiting the South-Sherlock Dispute

3.2. Jonathan Edwards's Trinitarian Polemic

3.3. "Three Persons in One Common Nature"

3.4. Conclusion

4. A Hound for the Heresy Hunt

4.1. Gilbert Burnet's Exposition of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England

4.2. Nestorius Redux? Gilbert Burnet on the Divinity of Christ

4.3. The Socinian and Arminian Background

4.4. Edwards on the Hypostatic Union

4.5. The Subsistence Model of the Hypostatic Union in Later Stuart Theology

4.6. Conclusion

5. Augustinians and Arminians? The Augustinian Doctrine of Original Sin in Augustan Arminianism

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Daniel Whitby and Philip van Limborch on the Divine Imputation of Adam's Sin

5.3. Gerhard Vossius and Jean Le Clerc on the Theological Legacy of Augustine

5.4. Jonathan Edwards's Defense of the "Catholic" Doctrine of Original Sin

5.5. Conclusion

6. The Strictest Athanasians: The Trinitarian Theology of Daniel Waterland in Context

6.1. The Scripture-Doctrine of the Trinity

6.2. The Problem of Subordinationism

6.3. Patrology in a Subordinationistic Milieu

6.4. The Reformed Appropriation of the Medieval Trinitarian Tradition

6.5. Daniel Waterland's Trinitarian Orthodoxy

6.6. Conclusion

7. The Trojan Horse Unboweled: William Nicholls, Jean Le Clerc, and the Meaning of Arminianism in Later Stuart England

7.1. Defensio Ecclesice Anglicance

7.2. Jean Le Clerc's Remonstrant Apologia

7.3. High-Churchmen Going Dutch?

7.4. Conclusion

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Fornecker, Samuel D. Bisschop's bench

ISBN:

9780197637135

0197637132

OCLC:

1315757195

Publisher Number:

99992336317