Retaining the Old Episcopal Divinity (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)
by Jake Griesel
John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) has typically been portrayed as a marginalized 'Calvinist' in an overwhelmingly 'Arminian' later Stuart Church of England. In Retaining the Old Episcopal Divinity, Jake Griesel challenges this depiction of Edwards and the theological climate of his contemporary Church. Griesel demonstrates that Edwards was recognized in his own day and the immediately following generations as one of the preeminent conforming divines of the period, who featured prominently in...
Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts: The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, Volume II
Undeserved Mercies: The Life of Richard Baxter (1615-1691)
by Don Gilbert
Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Acts of the Apostles
by Melancthon Jacobus
The Diary of Andrew Fuller (Complete Works of Andrew Fuller (1754-1815))
A diary of the man once described by Charles Haddon Spurgeon as 'the greatest theologian' of his generation.
Church Government in the Writings of George Gillespie (Rutherford studies: historical theology, #6)
by W.D.J. McKay
A biography shedding light on the life and personality of the great reformer, and the milieu in which he lived and worked. This work follows Calvin from childhood to humanistic and literary pursuits in Basel, to ministry in Geneva, to the halcyon Strasbourg years and finally back to Geneva. Calvin is shown, not as the "static" theologian, but a man of enormous vigour, constantly on the move in his thinking as well as in his life.
This informative collection offers a new approach to the study of John Calvin. The authors move beyond traditional approaches to consider the influential reformer within the broader context of the Roman Catholic Church and his complicated relationship to it. Several themes emerge in these studies, including the sense in which Calvin saw himself as a church reformer rather than the founder of a new tradition; Calvin's engagement with his Roman Catholic contemporaries; and the importance of conte...
Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform. She married a former priest and with her husband went to Switzerland, where she was active in the Reformation's takeover of Geneva. Dentiere's Very Useful Epistle (1539) is the first explicit statement of reformed theology by a woman to appear in French. Addressed to Queen Marguerite of Navarre, sister of the French king Francis I, the Epistle asks the queen to help those per...
John Calvin's Commentaries on Ethics and the Common Life
by John Calvin
Examining how Augustine reconciled self-love and self-denial in a unified Christian love, this book demonstrates the crucial role that continence played in Augustine's teaching, showing it to be more than an attitude toward sexuality; rather it is the operative mode of Augustininan caritas.