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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Arminian"”.
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Calvinistic Election and Arminian Reparation: A Striking Contrast in the Works of Roger Williams and John Milton
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Arminianism and Anti-Remonstrant Polemic in the Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian Church of England
… with the Dutch Remonstrant tradition by Arminian conformists of the later Stuart and early Hanoverian Church of England. It argues that several of the period’s fiercest theological controversies arose from what traditionalist divines took to be the uncritical appropriation of that …
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The Contest Between the ‘Great Red Dragon of Coleman-Street’ and the ‘Over-Orthodox Doctor’ of Oxford Concerning the Doctrine of Perseverance, or John Goodwin’s Redemption Redeemed (1651) and John Owen’s The Doctrine of The Saints’ Perseverance (1654)
… biographers to have converted from Calvinism to Arminianism, in a matter of months, in the year 1647. Thereafter Goodwin went on to write several Arminian works, including Redemption Redeemed in 1651. In this dissertation it is argued that his conversion was neither as rapid nor radical as has …
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Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration
… introduces the debate between Calvinists and Arminians but also introduces the recent attempt of modified views to present a via media between the two. Chapter 1 also presents the thesis and explains the parameters and presuppositions of the dissertation. Chapter 2 examines the doctrine of …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… three evangelical models, namely, Open theism, Arminianism, and Calvinism in terms of how these models of divine sovereignty function to comfort suffering Christians. Central to this evaluation is discovering the various degrees of equivocation each model affords Christians in trusting God to …
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A loss of will: "Arminianism," nonsectarianism, and the erosion of American psychology's moral project, 1636--1890
… factor is what I call the "Arminian impulse" in American moral psychology. A radical shift took place in this textbook discourse during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a shift from a Calvinistic psychology of will which embraced universal causation to an "Arminian" …
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Odd Fellows: The Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… to wonder whether Ford had abandoned the Arminian synergistic soteriology for Calvinism’s monergism.</p> <p>The Purpose</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to explore to what extent Frederick F. Bruce’s Reformed views, theological assumptions, and commitments were shared by and reflected …
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Odd Fellows: the Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the Writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… to wonder whether Ford had abandoned the Arminian synergistic soteriology for Calvinism’s monergism.</p> <p>The Purpose</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to explore to what extent Frederick F. Bruce’s Reformed views, theological assumptions, and commitments were shared by and reflected …
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Pragmatic Holiness in the Early Salvation Army: A Theology of Holiness as Action
… of holiness, particularly in the Wesleyan-Arminian stream, can have a meaningful place in the postmodern world. This thesis endeavours to establish a theological argument for a non-linear pragmatic understanding of holiness in the Wesleyan tradition. The theological argument is supplemented …
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The Meaning of Foreknowledge in Romans 8:29 and Its Ecclesiastical Implications
… Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism, and Calvinism and Arminianism. Chapter 2 presents foreknowledge as foreseen faith. According to Arminianism, God's foreknowledge in Romans 8:29 refers to his foresight of those men and women who throughout time would come to believe in his Son, thus resulting in …
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
… papist plotters, idolatrous traitors, and Arminian interlopers. Historians have called them Anglicans, Arminians, and Laudians. In his pivotal 1990 book, Nicholas Tyacke called them anti-Calvinists, but he identified their enemies too narrowly. Calvinists have become defined by five points …
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John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716): A reassessment of his location within the later Stuart Church of England
… theological and polemical works, despite some Arminian opposition, enjoyed a very positive reception among significant segments of the established Church’s clergy, many of whom shared his Reformed doctrinal convictions. Instead of a theological misfit as he has often been portrayed, this study …
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The Reader of Milton's "Higher Argument" in Paradise Lost
… (4) Patristic, (5) Scholastic eras, and (6) the Arminian heresy and the De Auxiliis controversy in the seventeenth century. John Milton, influenced by St. Augustine, contributes to the grace conversation through Paradise Lost.</p><p> Five topics concern the transcendent reader: (1) the …
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Seventh-day Adventists and Original Sin: a Study of the Early Development of the Seventh-day Adventist Understanding of the Effect of Adam's Sin on His Posterity
… treatment of original sin was developed along Arminian and conditionalist lines and emphasized actual sin more than ontological sin (as Augustine and certain Reformers had).</p> <p>While SDAs were located geographically, historically, and theologically, in an anti-Catholic, anti-Calvinistic …
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The Venetian Connection in early seventeenth-century England
… hostility to what they perceived as Jesuit and Arminian innovations. The network’s activities had lasting implications for political debate in England, Venice and Europe, furnishing later writers on Church-State relations and civil religion with valuable intellectual resources. The final section …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… soteriology of Owen in his polemics against Arminianism. Examining the views of Arminius was necessary to understand Owen’s positional anti-Arminian stance regarding predestination. Though Arminius was anti-Catholic, Reformed theologians considered Arminius a threat. For Owen, Arminianism was …
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R.B.C. Howell and the theological foundation for Baptist participation in the benevolent empire
… particularly from antimission Baptists, populist Arminian, the Restoration Movement, pedobaptists, and Landmarkers, by constructing a theological foundation for the church's mission built upon a carefully integrated view of divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Chapter one outlines the rise …
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Child-rearing and education : the thinking and practice of John Wesley and some of his contemporaries, evaluated within its eighteenth-century context
… Locke, and encouraged reading and learning. His Arminian philosophy championed self-improvement, and gave his followers an invitation for self-advancement. Nevertheless, his educational practice was more strongly evangelical than intellectual, more pious than academic, and his views on …