(Ebook) Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 : variety, persistence, and transformation by Wallace, Dewey D ISBN 9780199744831, 9780199876839, 9780199897339, 0199744831, 0199876835, 0199897336

(Ebook) Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714 : variety, persistence, and transformation by Wallace, Dewey D ISBN 9780199744831, 9780199876839, 9780199897339, 0199744831, 0199876835, 0199897336

Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration. He seeks to overturn conventional cliches about Calvinism: that it was anti-mystical, that it allowed no scope for the ''ancient theology'' that characterized much of Renaissance learning, that its piety was harshly predestinarian, that it was uninterested in natural theology, and that it had been purged from the established church by the end of the seventeenth century. --from publisher description. Abstract: Dewey Wallace tells the story of several prominent English Calvinist actors and thinkers in the first generations after the beginning of the Restoration, illuminating the religious and intellectual history of the era between the Reformation and modernity.