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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fornecker, Samuel D., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in historical theology.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in historical theology

Oxford scholarship online

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.

England--Church history--17th century.

England.

England--Church history--18th century.

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

Church of England.

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

Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.

Patrick, Simon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

The relationship between English conformity and the Arminian tradition has long defied neat explanation. In this book, Samuel D. Fornecker charts the incompatible theological agendas into which post-Restoration Arminian conformity proliferated and challenges the thesis that a monolithic Arminianism marched steadily from the post-Restoration period into the early Hanoverian. Fornecker examines the theological life of the English Church by paying particular attention to the Arminian conformists who accentuated Reformed divinity in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Dutch Arminian tradition and those who exercised authority from the Bishops' bench.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Conventions

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 Prælectiones de Libertate Christianâ

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 Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ

7.2. Jean Le Clerc's Remonstrant Apologia

7.3. High-.Churchmen Going Dutch?

7.4. Conclusion

8. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 10, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Fornecker, Samuel D. Bisschop's Bench

ISBN:

0-19-763714-0

0-19-763716-7

0-19-763715-9