Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism C. 1590-1640

ISBN-13: 9780198201847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 332 str.

Nicholas Tyacke

Opis

This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The author argues that it was Arminianism, not the rise of puritanism, that was a major cause of the war,

Recenzje

`one of the most distinguished and most fertile dissertations to have been produced by the doctoral belt' London Review of Books

Spis treści

List of plates and map; Abbreviations and symbols; Introduction; The Hampton Court conference and Arminianism Avant la lettre; Cambridge University and Arminianism; Oxford University and Arminianism; The British delegation to the synod of Dor; Bishop Neile and the Durham house group; Richard Montague, the House of Commons, and Arminianism; The York house conference; Arminianism during the personal rule and after; Conclusion; Appendix I: From Calvinist to Arminian: the doctrinal tenor of the Paul's Cross sermons 1570-1638; Appendix II: The Arminianism of Archbishop Laud; Select bibliography; Index.