Bisschop''s Bench - Contours of Arminian Conformity in the Church of England, C.16741742

In Bisschop's Bench, 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.

List of contents

• 1. Introduction


• 2. Episcopian Divinity in Restoration Cambridge: Joseph Beaumont, Simon Episcopius, and the Nova Theologia


• 3. A Merely Specifick Trinity? Reactions to William Sherlock in Context


• 4. A Hound for the Heresy Hunt


• 5. Augustinians and Arminians? The Augustinian Doctrine of Original Sin in Augustan Arminianism


• 6. The Strictest Athanasians: The Trinitarian Theology of Daniel Waterland in Context


• 7. The Trojan Horse Unbowelled: William Nicholls, Jean Le Clerc, and the Meaning of Arminianism in Later Stuart England


• Conclusion

About the author

Samuel D. Fornecker is Associate Rector for Teaching and Equipping at St Andrew's Anglican Church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, where he also serves as Instructor and Director of Seminary Programs at The Ridley Institute.

Summary

In Bisschop's Bench, 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.

Additional text

This book contains a persuasive argument, and its findings should make a significant impact on the way that historians think about the late Stuart and early Hanoverian Church.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Fornecker, Samuel (Associate Rector Fornecker, Samuel D. Fornecker, Samuel D. (Associate Rector Fornecker
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9780197637135
• ISBN: 978-0-19-763713-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: OXFORD STU IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY SERIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, RELIGION / Christianity / Anglican, RELIGION / Christian Church / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Christianity, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Church history, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches