The polemical revisionary writings of 17th-century puritan pastor Anthony Wotton on topics such as Christ s redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God s saving grace and the moral law, faith and works, and the gracious covenant and legal covenant as well as the bitter doctrinal controversy that they stimulated are examined in this scholarly study. The book also traces the Wottonian complexion of the theology of John Goodwin, who became, over the course of a 30-year period, a prolific exponent of unorthodox notions perhaps the most provocative of England s learned...

The polemical revisionary writings of 17th-century puritan pastor Anthony Wotton on topics such as Christ's redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God's saving grace and the moral law, faith and works, and the gracious covenant and legal covenant--as well as the bitter doctrinal controversy that they stimulated--are examined in this scholarly study. The book traces the Wottonian complexion of the theology of John Goodwin, who became, over the course of a 30-year period, a prolific exponent of unorthodox notions, perhaps the most provocative of England's learned...