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Author: Leif Dixon ,
Professor Euan Cameron ,
Professor Bruce Gordon ,
Dr. Bridget Heal
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.861kg
ISBN: 9781409463863
ISBN 10: 1409463869
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 10 January 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
In sum, Dixon's work is written well, and deserves a hearing from anyone interested in this central theological controversy ... Dixon's work reveals the complexity of predestinarianism, and informs the discussion through the framework of the cultural crises and pastoral concerns inherent within the medieval/early modern English Sitz im Leben. - Gregory E. Lamb, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Journal of Theology ... I found this book to be a really stimulating read, and it has much to offer the historian, with Dixon having a talent for clarifying and explaining dense theological ideas.' Reviews in History '... Dixon's work should help reshape our understanding of how the doctrine of predestination worked in early modern England. - Sixteenth Century Journal Dixon is to be applauded for recovering the positive import of the doctrine of predestination in this formative period of English Protestantism. He observes that Even 'objective' modern scholars are prone to expressing their distaste for a doctrine which they often find to be depressing at best, and morally repellent at worst (p. 3). Arguably, it is this factor which has most blinded modern scholarship to how the doctrine actually functioned. Dixon's work is, therefore an important corrective and a welcome addition to the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History Series. - JONATHAN CARTER, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society
In sum, Dixon's work is written well, and deserves a hearing from anyone interested in this central theological controversy ... Dixon's work reveals the complexity of predestinarianism, and informs the discussion through the framework of the cultural crises and pastoral concerns inherent within the medieval/early modern English Sitz im Leben. - Gregory E. Lamb, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Journal of Theology ... I found this book to be a really stimulating read, and it has much to offer the historian, with Dixon having a talent for clarifying and explaining dense theological ideas.' Reviews in History '... Dixon's work should help reshape our understanding of how the doctrine of predestination worked in early modern England. - Sixteenth Century Journal Dixon is to be applauded for recovering the positive import of the doctrine of predestination in this formative period of English Protestantism. He observes that Even 'objective' modern scholars are prone to expressing their distaste for a doctrine which they often find to be depressing at best, and morally repellent at worst (p. 3). Arguably, it is this factor which has most blinded modern scholarship to how the doctrine actually functioned. Dixon's work is, therefore an important corrective and a welcome addition to the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History Series. - JONATHAN CARTER, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society
"""In sum, Dixon’s work is written well, and deserves a hearing from anyone interested in this ""central theological controversy""… Dixon’s work reveals the complexity of predestinarianism, and informs the discussion through the framework of the cultural crises and pastoral concerns inherent within the medieval/early modern English Sitz im Leben."" - Gregory E. Lamb, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern Journal of Theology ""... I found this book to be a really stimulating read, and it has much to offer the historian, with Dixon having a talent for clarifying and explaining dense theological ideas.' Reviews in History '... Dixon's work should help reshape our understanding of how the doctrine of predestination worked in early modern England."" - Sixteenth Century Journal ""Dixon is to be applauded for recovering the positive import of the doctrine of predestination in this formative period of English Protestantism. He observes that ""Even 'objective' modern scholars are prone to expressing their distaste for a doctrine which they often find to be depressing at best, and morally repellent at worst"" (p. 3). Arguably, it is this factor which has most blinded modern scholarship to how the doctrine actually functioned. Dixon's work is, therefore an important corrective and a welcome addition to the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History Series."" - JONATHAN CARTER, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society"
'... I found this book to be a really stimulating read, and it has much to offer the historian, with Dixon having a talent for clarifying and explaining dense theological ideas.' Reviews in History '... Dixon's work should help reshape our understanding of how the doctrine of predestination worked in early modern England.' Sixteenth Century Journal
Author Information
Leif Dixon was a British Academy postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and has been a lecturer in early modern history at the University of Oxford.
