Mystery unveiled : the crisis of the Trinity in early modern England /

Paul C.H. Lim offers an insightful examination of the polemical debates about the doctrine of the Trinity in seventeenth-century England, showing that this philosophical and theological re-configuration significantly impacted the politics of religion in the early modern period. Through analysis of t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lim, Paul Chang-Ha (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:	Oxford studies in historical theology.
Subjects:	Trinity > History of doctrines > 17th century. England > Church history > 17th century. Trinité > Histoire des doctrines > 17e siècle. Angleterre > Histoire religieuse > 17e siècle. RELIGION > Christian Theology > General. Trinity > History of doctrines England 1600-1699 Electronic books. Church history
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Table of Contents:

Rescuing Scripture from popery, reclaiming mystery from presbytery : antitrinitarian theology and trajectory of Paul Best and John Biddle
Antinomian and antitrinitarian?: the fate of the Trinity between 1640 and 1660
Many weapons, one aim: trinitarian reactions to John Biddle in context
Polemical and practical?: the spirituality of Francis Cheynell and John Owen in context
Bishops behaving badly?: Hobbes, Baxter, and Marvell on the problem of conciliar history and the nature of heresy
Platonic captivity or sublime mystery?: the Trinity and the Gospel of John in early modern England.