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In pursuit of purity, unity, and liberty : Richard Baxter's Puritan ecclesiology in its seventeenth-century context /
"Richard Baxter's ecclesiology will be the focus of this study. 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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of Christian thought ;
v. 112. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES
- I. Works of Baxter
- II. Journals, Monographs, Reference Works, and Miscellania
- NOTE ON STYLE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY, AND STRUCTURE
- I. Another Work on Baxter? Historiographical Justification
- II. Methodology and Structure
- PART I: REFORMING THE NOTAE ECCLESIAE
- CHAPTER TWO: CONVERSION AND CATECHIZING: PREACHING AND REFORM OF THE TRUE CHURCH
- I. Introduction
- II. Preaching: Definition and Significance in Baxter
- III. Conversionism, Modified Preparationism, and Plain Style.
- IV. Catechizing: A Necessary Supplement to Preaching
- V. Conclusion
- CHAPTER THREE: REFORMING THE ENTRANCE INTO THE VISIBLE CHURCH: BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION
- I. Introduction
- II. Modern Historiography on Baxter's Baptismal Thought
- III. Context of Baxter's Emerging Baptismal Thought
- IV. Theological Considerations in Baxter's Baptismal Thought
- V. Revitalized Confirmation: The ""Perfecting"" of Infant Baptism and Covenant Renewal
- VI. Conclusion
- CHAPTER FOUR: BETWEEN HOLY FAST AND UNHOLY FEAST: BAXTER'S EUCHARISTIC THOUGHT IN CONTEXT
- I. Introduction.
- II. The Puritan Context of the Struggle for the Purity of the Lord's Supper
- III. Baxter's Eucharistic Theology and the Question of Open Admission
- IV. Preparation, Assurance, and the Communion of Saints
- V. On Reforming Primitive Pastoral Discipline
- VI. Conclusion
- PART II: UNITY, PURITY, AND LIBERTY PURSUED
- CHAPTER FIVE: THE PURSUIT OF PURITY IN UNITY: THE WORCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION AND THE RHETORIC OF PARTIAL CONFORMITY
- I. Introduction: Historical and Historiographical
- II. Pursuing Purity without Separatism: A Puritan Dilemma.
- III. The Worcestershire Association: Its Genesis and Activity for the Pursuit of Purity in Unity in the Context of Religious Radicalism in the 1650s
- IV. Purity Perfected and Anti-Popery Continued: The Quaker Threat and Baxter's Interpretation of the Proliferation of Sects
- V. Occasional Communion and the Limits of Non-Conformity
- VI. Conclusion
- CHAPTER SIX: SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOCINIANISM, ANTINOMIANISM, AND DOCTRINAL UNITY IN PRIMITIVE PURITY
- I. Introduction
- II. The Clash of 1654 and Its Theological Background.
- III. Baxter, Sola Scriptura, Socinianism, and the Problem of Primitive Purity
- IV. Baxter's Theological Pedigree
- V. John Owen and Richard Baxter: Common Puritan Past, Divergent Dissenting Future?
- VI. Conclusion
- CHAPTER SEVEN: IN PURSUIT OF LIBERTY: THE GROTIAN RELIGION AND THE ""TRUE"" HISTORY OF PURITANISM
- I. Introduction
- II. The Problem of the Grotian Religion: Liberty and Legitimacy of Reformed Ministry
- III. The Quest for the ""Right"" History of the Puritans
- IV. Conclusion
- CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I. Manuscripts
- II. Works by Richard Baxter.