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Author Pagán, Jonathan Warren, author.

Title Giles Firmin and the transatlantic Puritan tradition : polity, piety, and polemic / by Jonathan Warren Pagán.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm.).
Series Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 1573-5664 ; volume 193
Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Vanderbilt University, 2014, under the title: Polity, piety, and polemic : Giles Firmin and the transatlantic Puritan tradition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "The admonition of the John Howe to the Earl of Kildare is a fitting epigram to a book on the life and writings of Giles Firmin (1613/14-1697). The thrust of Firmin's entire corpus of work was to construct forms of visible unity between the factions of the godly"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 "Scholarly and Strangely Courteous Controversies": Firmin's Ecclesiastical Identity in the 1640s and 1650s -- 1 Firmin's Experience to 1651 -- 2 Firmin's "Interpendency" in the Early 1650s -- 3 Growing Presbyterian Identity in the Later 1650s -- 4 Sects, Quakers, and the Power of the Magistrate -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 "Nor Yet a New-Style Episcopalian": Firmin's Writings in the Early 1660s -- 1 Laudians, Moderates, and the Problem of Re-Ordination
2 Gifted Ministers and the Imposition of the Liturgy -- 3 The Solemn League and Covenant, Primitive Episcopacy, and Tyrannical Prelacy -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 "Truth and the Lambs of God Must be Regarded": Firmin on Effectual Calling, Faith, and Assurance -- 1 The Real Christian in Context -- 2 Preparation for Salvation: against Shepard and Hooker -- 3 Defining Faith: for and against the Rogers and Perkins -- 4 Effectual Calling, Self-Love, and the Glory of God -- 5 Imposing Duties on a "Christian Constituted" -- 6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 "What Episcopacy Is It You Mean?" Conscience, Schism, Anti-Popery, and the Edward Stillingfleet Debate -- 1 Erastians and Latitudinarians against Dissenting Schismatics in the 1670s and 1680s -- 2 The Latitudinarians on the Separation and Schism of Dissenters -- 3 Stillingfleet's Polemics in the 1680s -- 4 Dissenting Replies to Stillingfleet and Anglican Polemics -- 5 Firmin's Position vis-a-vis Presbyterian Dissent -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 "Out of Whose Hive the Quakers Swarm'd": Firmin, Federalists, and Anabaptists in the 1670s and 1680s1
1 Henry Danvers, Thomas Grantham, and the Paedobaptist/Anti-Paedobaptist Debate -- 2 Of Quakerism, Popery, and the Slippery Slope -- 3 Exegetical and Hermeneutical Disputes -- 4 The Matter and Form of Baptism -- 5 Pastoral Concerns -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 "The Gospel is a Law": Firmin, Free Grace, and Justification in 1690s Context -- 1 The Antinomian Conflict, 1690-1698 -- 1.1 Antinomianism and Polemics -- 1.2 Antinomianism and Neonomianism in the Polemics of the 1690s -- 1.3 Free Grace and Justification, 1690-1694
1.4 Richard Davis, Antinomianism, and the Fragmentation of the Happy Union -- 1.5 Firmin on Justification and Assurance -- 1.6 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697.
Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrCdCFR3cWW73PMc734v3
Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Biography.
England -- Church history -- 17th century.
New England -- Church history -- 17th century.
Dissenters, Religious
England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C
New England
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Biographies
Church history
Other Form: Print version: 9789004412910 9004412913 (DLC) 2020022003 (OCoLC)1143639543
ISBN 9789004430051 (electronic bk.)
9004430059 (electronic bk.)
9789004412910
9004412913