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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Calvinist"”.
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Daniel Featley and Calvinist Conformity in Early Stuart England
… examines the life and works of the English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645) through the lens of various printed and manuscript sources, especially his manuscript notebooks in Oxford. It links his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, and …
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The geography of sinfulness: mapping Calvinist subjectiving between word and image
This thesis on Calvinist subjectivity within the work of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) explores how the dialectic of word and image, and subsequently the Word, Logos, and word as rhetoric constructs conceptions of selfhood necessarily associated with and bound by the rhetoric of sinfulness. In …
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Portrait of the Calvinist as a young killer : confessions, fanaticism, and satanic horror in Hogg's Justified Sinner
James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner innovated several important novel genres in the Romantic literary era. The novel centers around a young man, Robert Wringhim, who, along with his devilish double, Gil-Martin, goes on a religious-based killing spree in late 17th …
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Seeing the World through Marcus zum Lamm’s Thesaurus Picturarum, c. 1564–1606
… collector, ‘lover of the painted arts’, and Calvinist church councillor Dr Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606) compiled an unprecedented ‘treasury’ of printed and manuscript images and texts known as the Thesaurus Picturarum. The thirty-three surviving volumes which comprise Lamm’s understudied …
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Work in the Calling in Max Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis
… analysis of early Protestant Lutheran and Calvinist documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was used to flesh out a history of ideas to determine whether evidence exists to support Weber's claims related to religious doctrine. Results. Historical analyses revealed that the …
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Benjamin Wallin: A Respectable Minister's Proclamation of the Gospel in Eighteenth-Century London
… traditionally been associated with the "high" Calvinist movement of the eighteenth century. Accordingly, Benjamin Wallin has also been linked to the movement by association. This dissertation examines the textual evidence of Wallin’s sermons to argue that Benjamin Wallin was not a "high" …
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The mystical theology of Peter Sterry : a study in neoplatonist Puritanism
… the politics of his day. Moreover, as both a Calvinist and a Platonist, Sterry ingeniously combined two rather . different modes of thinking. Yet his commitment to both Calvinism and Platonism lead to several tensions in his work, some of which are never entirely reconciled. Sterry's influence …
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Saving the Church of England: John Edwards (1637-1716) as dissenting conformer
… XXXIX Articles were based. Though a committed Calvinist, he willingly subordinated his theological preferences on non-essentials to greater principle of unity by respectfully remaining in the church dominated by Latitudinarians and others who did not share his Reformed theology. Leaders on all …
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Divine sovereignty and the religious problem of evil: An evaluation of evangelical models
… as much as Calvinism does. It is argued that the Calvinist model provides the highest level of confidence in God's ability to bring an eschatological resolution to suffering. Chapter 6 summarizes the material presented in chapters 1-5. On the basis of the conclusions reached through the evaluation …
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… from Islamic and Buddhist countries. (2) Calvinist countries are not different from Islamic countries. (3) No significant different between Shiá and Sunni countries in the Islamic world as anticipated, but there is an interaction between those Islamic that are communitarian (Shia) and have …
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Reclaiming Monergism: The Case for Sovereign Grace in Effectual Calling and Regeneration
… upon man's free will in conversion and, in the Calvinist's opinion, would rob God of all of the glory in salvation. Chapter 1 introduces the monergism-synergism debate by placing it within the contemporary evangelical context. Chapter 1 not only introduces the debate between Calvinists and …
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Reaching for a connection: hand imagery in Emily Dickinson’s poems
… as it relates to Dickinson's particular brand of Calvinist theology. It then discusses the hand as a symbol of connection between the poems' speakers and figures opposite them in various textual correspondences. It concludes by offering that the image of the hand reflects the method of …
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The Concept of Virtue: The Influence of European Ethics, Metaphysics, and Theology on American Ideas of Virtue, 1670-1770
… in British thought. One theory, supported by Calvinist theology, maintained that virtue was a standard arbitrarily created by God and revealed in nature and Scripture to distinguish the behavior of the man guided by sovereign grace from the behavior of those moved by self-interest to attain …
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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
… immediately proceeded Fuller, namely the High-Calvinist Particular Baptists and the Evangelical revivals. Chapter 5 provides an overview of the work of the Spirit in conversion and mission within the theologies of John Gill and Jonathan Edwards. Chapter 6 provides the relevant background to …
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God’s Foreknowledge – A philosophical investigation
… four positions have emerged: the Augustinian-Calvinist position, Simple-Foreknowledge, Molinism (Middle-knowledge) and Open Theism. In my paper, I introduce these philosophical concepts; to evaluate and comment on their successes, failures and religious implications. These implications are …
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Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
… foundations are an explicit departure from the Calvinist-derived consensus framework of the Admonition Controversy.
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Communists vs. Conservatives and the Struggle for the Hungarian Soul in Canada, 1940-1989
… religious differences between Roman Catholic and Calvinist Hungarian immigrants served as a divisive force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the arrival of a massive wave of new immigrants from the lands of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire after the First World War introduced …
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The Evolution Of French Identity: A Study Of The Huguenots In Colonial South Carolina, 1680-1740
… common factors: their French language, their Calvinist religion, and their French heritage. As the immigrant group began to build their new lives in Carolina, these identifying factors began to disappear. The first generation's identity evolved from French immigrants to British subjects when …
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Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
… mainstream Protestantism in the form of Duncan's Calvinist Presbyterianism. At the same time, all three artists struggle with the persistent affect of traumatic experience, from domestic violence to sexual assault. These artists' works represent their traumatic experiences as mediated through the …
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Medical Developments and Religious Belief with Special Reference to Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
… been met by religious objections from some hyper-Calvinist sources - particularly in Scotland - but this opposition had almost disappeared by the 19th century, and it did not recur on the introduction of cowpox vaccination by Jenner in 1798. Obstetric anaesthesia is commonly said to have …
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