In Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter's Puritan Ecclesiology in Its Seventeenth-Century Context

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BRILL, 2004 M01 1 - 263 páginas
Richard Baxter s ecclesiology is the focus of this study. Arguably one of the best-known Puritans of the seventeenth century, Baxter (1615-1691) lived through the British Civil Wars, the Regicide, the Interregnum, the restoration of monarchy and episcopacy in 1660, subsequent ejection of numerous Puritan pastors, and the Glorious Revolution of 1689. His ecclesiology was formed within these multifarious contexts. Among others, three significant facets of purity, unity, and liberty are examined in detail. The book re-examines the central role of catechizing and congregational discipline in Baxter s understanding of the true church, his insistence that the purity and unity of the church are to be pursued concurrently, the self-perceived identity of English Puritans, and the question of the true church in the latter-half of the seventeenth century.
 

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Historiographical Introduction
1
Conversion and Catechizing Preaching
23
Reforming the Entrance into
53
Between Holy Fast and Unholy Feast
84
14
86
51
93
The Pursuit of Purity in Unity
117
SOLA SCRIPTURA Socinianism Antinomianism
156
Conclusion
222
Conclusion
224
Bibliography
231
Other Printed Primary Sources
233
Reference Works
239
Monographs
240
Essays and Articles
246
Unpublished Theses
252

In Pursuit of Liberty THE GROTIAN RELIGION and the True History of Puritanism
191
Liberty and Legitimacy of Reformed Ministry
195
The Quest for the Right History of the Puritans
212

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Paul Chang-Ha Lim, Ph.D. (2001) in History of Christianity, University of Cambridge, is Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, MA. His current research project focuses on Karl Barth's Trinitarian theodicy.

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