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The Reformed Conformity that flourished within the Early Stuart English Church was a rich, vibrant and distinctive theological tradition that has never before been studied in its own right. While scholars have observed how Reformed Conformists clashed with Laudians and Puritans alike, no sustained academic study of their teaching on grace and their attitude to the Church has yet been undertaken, despite the centrality of these topics to Early Stuart theological controversy. This ground-breaking monograph recovers this essential strand of Early Stuart Christian identity, examining the teachings and writings of ten prominent theologians
List of contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Reformed Conformist Style of Piety
- Chapter 1: The Act Lectures of John Prideaux
- Chapter 2: John Davenant and the English Appropriation of the Synod of Dort
- Chapter 3: Responses to Montagu
- Chapter 4: The Defence of Grace after the 1626 Proclamation
- Chapter 5: The Articulation of Justification by Faith
- Chapter 6: The Lord's Supper
- Chapter 7: Episcopacy
- Chapter 8: Disputed ceremonies and the liturgical year
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Stephen Hampton read Law at Cambridge and Theology at Oxford and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1997. He was appointed Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford in 1998, where he undertook his doctoral research. In 2003, he became Senior Tutor of St John's College, Durham. Since 2007, he has served as Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is the author of Anti-Arminians: the Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I. He has since focused his research on the Early Stuart Church, publishing a number of articles with the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, the Journal of Theological Studies, The Seventeenth Century and the Calvin Theological Journal.
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As strong and as masterful as Hampton's work is, it is not without fault...Whatever other deficits there are, they in no way detract from the magnitude of what Hampton has done, specifically in cutting a path forward for studying the avant-garde of early modern Reformed Conformists.
