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Wallace oVers a highly readable account of the continuing resilience and influence of Calvinism in the second half of the seventeenth century ... it is very carefully written and definitely proves his point that Calvinism was far from intellectually and spirituality stagnant. * Michael Brydon, Journal of Theological Studies * a meaty but pleasurable read * Lee Gatiss, Theology * a humane, wise and informative account * Journal of Ecclesiastical History * Wallace ably demonstrates the life and death of Calvinism amoung English divines as well as the organic links between conformity and non-conformity in the half century following 1662. * Adam Richardson, Churchman *

a humane, wise and informative account 27/07/12 a meaty but pleasurable read Lee Gatiss, Theology

<br> In this pathbreaking, important study, Dewey D. Wallace, Jr. tracks the ways in which varieties of English Calvinism creatively adapted to the challenges of a period usually and incorrectly associated simply with Calvinist decline. A must read for anyone interested in the religion of the period. --Michael Winship, Professor of History and E. Merton Coulter Chair, University of Georgia <br><p><br> This is a masterly study by a historian who has thought long and deeply about the history of early modern English theology. Dewey Wallace demonstrates that the death of Calvinism after 1660 has been much exaggerated. He shows how Reformed writers responded to new intellectual challenges by developing different strains of Calvinism, blending it variously with mysticism, 'ancient theology, ' evangelical pietism, natural theology and evidentialism, and Church of England conformism. --John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leicester<p><br> Shapers of English Calvinism i

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