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Calvinism and Characterization in the Novels of Tobias Smollett
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“Beaten on Both Sides”: A Reevaluation of the Anti-Calvinism of Andrewes, Neile, and Laud
… anti-Calvinists. In reassessing the breadth of Calvinism, we can come to understand the heart of these men who made enormous waves in the lives of the people of England in the seventeenth century, religiously and politically.
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Odd Fellows: The Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… 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 in Desmond Ford’s soteriology, and …
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Odd Fellows: the Intersection of Arminianism and Calvinism in the Writings of Desmond Ford and F.F. Bruce
… 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 in Desmond Ford’s soteriology, and …
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Four Views of the Nature and Role of Women in Sixteenth Century Protestantism, Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anabaptism, and English Puritanism
<p>Never in its fifteen-hundred year history had the Roman Catholic Church been so shaken as when, in the sixteenth century, a mere handful of men advanced the Scriptural doctrines that were to result in the rise of Protestantism. The sole authority of the Bible, the priesthood of all believers, …
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"A kind providence" and "The right to self preservation": how Andrew Jackson, Emersonian whiggery, and frontier Calvinism shaped the course of American political culture
Andrew Jackson has inspired numerous biographies and works of historical scholarship, but his religious views have attracted very little attention. Jackson may have been a giant on the political landscape, but he was also a human being, an ordinary American who experienced the same difficulties and …
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Growth in English Baptist churches: with special reference to the Northamptonshire Particular Baptist Association (1770-1830)
… laid at the door of the prevalence of hyper-Calvinism and its principal Baptist proponent Dr. John Gill. The idea that from c.1770 the English Baptists suddenly burst out of this decline into a century long revival was one that quickly came under scrutiny as the research progressed. Such …
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"Sacramental Resistance" to pastoral dreams : the Midwestern land in the works of Sherwood Anderson and his contemporaries.
… epistemology bequeathed by New England Calvinism and embodied in industrialism.
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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)
… said by his 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 …
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Refiguring George MacDonald: Science and the Realist Novel
… of evolution, a resistance to pseudoscience and Calvinism, an endorsement of non-dualism, and an analysis of scientific models and methods. The generic classification of <em>Lilith </em>as a realist novel with fantastical elements is discussed.</p>
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… 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 bring good out of …
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Newman's Love of Nature as an Index of His Spirituality
… for boys, and there came under the influence of Calvinism. At sixteen, he entered Trinity College, Oxford, and later was elected to a Fellowship of Oriel, the highest honor his University could bestow upon him. He was a brilliant ‘student, but quiet and shy, making few friends. He took Orders in …
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"An Engine of Destruction": Andrew Fuller's Response to Antinomianism
… While his written responses to High Calvinism, Socinianism, Sandemanianism, and Deism are well known, Fuller’s response to Antinomianism has not received as much attention. Thus, this thesis will argue that the “engine of destruction” known as Antinomianism was the greatest threat to …
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Engaging the Heart: Orthodoxy and Experimentalism in William Gadsby’s A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship
… century came to a close the influence of high Calvinism began to decline. At the same time, Andrew Fuller’s moderate Calvinism, which encouraged free evangelism, was sweeping through the Calvinistic Baptist churches, reaching the laity through the “Bristol Collection” and John Rippon’s …
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“The Grand Encouragement”: Andrew Fuller’s Pneumatology as a Reception of and Advancement on Orthodox, Puritan, and Evangelical Perspectives on the Holy Spirit
… writings, covering his break from High Calvinism, the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society, and apologetic writings. Chapter 7 covers Fuller’s doctrine of the work of the Spirit in conversion and mission.
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George Whitefield's theology and methodology of evangelism
… beliefs related to sources of authority, Calvinism, the doctrines of grace, universal invitations, and the Great Commission. Chapter 4 examines Whitefield's methodology of evangelism. It includes an analysis of the English itinerant's evangelistic preaching, personal evangelism efforts, …
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An analysis of D. James Kennedy's theology and method of evangelism
… and each of the following: the Holy Spirit, Calvinism, the Bible, and the cultural mandate. Chapter 4 addresses Kennedy's evangelism method. An analysis of his evangelism methods, such as Evangelism Explosion and media evangelism, is included. Attention is also given to the cultural milieu …
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The Mixed Marriages Act (1949) : a theological critique based on the investigation of legislative action and church responses to this legislation
… to show how its roots in a particular view of Calvinism, Kuyperian Neo-Calvinism and the Bible result in the kind of fertility-lineage ethic which makes support for the Act possible. An effort is made to show the theological inadequacies of this thought from a Christian perspective, and to …
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Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
… I argue, is not a critique of presbyterianism or Calvinism themselves but of their 14th-century nominalist roots. Whereas recent scholarship has focused on the extent of Hooker’s consistency with the magisterial reformers, I aim to situate Hooker within the broader intellectual developments, …
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A study of the origin of Scottish Presbyterianism (1560-1638)
… the Scottish Reformation; thirdly, influence of Calvinism on Presbyterian church polity; fourthly, the simple political motivation for the Reformation; fifthly, Queen Mary’s religious policy; sixthly, re-examination from contemporary local and urban contexts; seventhly, the Gaelic perspective on …
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