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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"William Perkins"”.
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Crowned with Immortal Glory: Eschatalogical Hope in the Spirituality of William Perkins
… and theologians of the English Reformation, William Perkins (1558-1602), it becomes evident that embedded within the Reformed Scholastic tradition lays a robust development and understanding of the doctrine of glorification. Perkins formulated and wrote a great deal on the final state of the …
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God’s Imposition: The Centrality of Vocation in the Spirituality of William Perkins
William Perkins (1558–1602) was a significant figure in the post-Reformation Church of England. Contemporary scholars call him the “father of Puritanism” for his pursuit of spiritual reform through preaching and teaching. As a theologian, he is known for his important contribution to the doctrine …
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Devil’s Devices: William Perkins and the Integration of Spiritual Warfare and Pastoral Counseling
This thesis argues that William Perkins integrates an understanding of the realities of spiritual warfare into his understanding of pastoral counseling. The first chapter provides a survey of sources relevant to understanding Perkins’s thought in the areas of spiritual warfare and pastoral …
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Developing an Awareness of the Demonic in Biblical Counseling, in Conversation With William Perkins
William Perkins, the father of Puritanism and the great popularizer of Reformed and Puritan theology from the sixteenth century onward, articulated a robust situational demonology further developed by Puritan writers subsequent to his theological contributions to the field. His demonology serves as …
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"Scripture Is Both the Glosse and the Text": Biblical Interpretation and Its Implementation in the Works of William Perkins
William Perkins expounded Scripture throughout his works according to the method presented in The Arte of Prophecying. This intense scriptural focus emanated from Perkins’s belief that Scripture was God’s Word and the only adequate foundation for the reformation he sought for individuals, the …
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Application for the Sake of Transformation: A Study of Thomas Manton’s Categorical Approach to Sermon Application
… application, being thoroughly influenced by William Perkins and the Westminster Directory for Public Worship, maintained a teleological aim of transformation through an informed mind as conceptualized in the Augustinian tradition. Chapter 1 introduces the key components of this study and …
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English Godly Art of Dying Manuals, c. 1590-1625
… conducted through printed manuals. Godly divines William Perkins, Nicholas Byfield and Samuel Crooke use various rhetorical methods to incite, regulate and suppress readers' emotions regarding the prospect of death. A final chapter returns to the use of personal examples in death preparation …
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Becoming What We Are: A Theological Account of Self-Development Informed by William Perkins's Theology of Sanctification
… of sanctification as it comes from the hand of William Perkins of Cambridge (1558–1602). Perkins is an apt source, given that his construal of sanctification is not only representative of his tradition but is also generously expounded and experientially-oriented. His relative obscurity in our …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
… no exception, as our exploration of figures like William Tyndale, Thomas Cranmer, John Calvin, John Jewel and William Perkins will demonstrate. By teasing out tensions in the post-Reformation debates surrounding the act of artistic making in a religious framework, the thesis provides a framework …