UID:
almahu_9948664188102882
Format:
1 online resource (449 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653017304
Series Statement:
Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik 58
Content:
This study focuses on how Puritans in England and especially New England used the church fathers when reading the Bible and defending Congregationalism. The analysis of a variety of textual genres and largely unedited sources written between 1592 and 1728 shows that patristic sources are often cited. Contrary to the widespread assumption that they embraced a fundamentalist Biblicism, Puritans prove to be fully engaged in the rich traditional theological discourse and display a remarkable knowledge of the church fathers. Their authority was that of close witnesses of the primitive age rather than conclusive evidence that would compromise the sola scriptura principle. The church fathers were an integral part of the professional training of Puritan ministers, who relied on them as interpretive aids in exegesis and as model homilists. The findings also suggest that Puritans perceived of New England in terms of typological continuity, with early Christians as models to be imitated regarding church membership, baptism, church office and discipline as well as endurance in times of persecution and dissent.
Content:
«Schäfers treatment is balanced, judicious, and thorough, and she opens up a little-known chapter in the history of Christian thought and in American intellectual history.» (Robert Louis Wilken, First Things 06/2014)
Note:
Doctoral Thesis
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Contents: A Case against Claiming the Fathers? William Perkins’s Probleme of the Forged Catholicisme... (1604, 1631) – The Appeal to the Fathers and Patristic Learning – Exegesis in Theory and Practice (biblical commentary and lecture, homiletics and preaching – Ecclesiology (baptism, church membership, Congregationalism, church office, church discipline).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631607442
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-01730-4
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https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/13616?format=EPDF
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