In pursuit of purity, unity, and liberty : : Richard Baxter's Puritan ecclesiology in its seventeenth-century context / / by Paul Chang-Ha Lim.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian thought, v. 112
• Author: Lim, Paul Chang-Ha.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; v. 112.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Table of Contents

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES -- I. Works of Baxter -- II. Journals, Monographs, Reference Works, and Miscellania -- NOTE ON STYLE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE: HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY, AND STRUCTURE -- I. Another Work on Baxter? Historiographical Justification -- II. Methodology and Structure -- PART I: REFORMING THE NOTAE ECCLESIAE -- CHAPTER TWO: CONVERSION AND CATECHIZING: PREACHING AND REFORM OF THE TRUE CHURCH -- I. Introduction -- II. Preaching: Definition and Significance in Baxter -- III. Conversionism, Modified Preparationism, and Plain Style -- IV. Catechizing: A Necessary Supplement to Preaching -- V. Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: REFORMING THE ENTRANCE INTO THE VISIBLE CHURCH: BAPTISM AND CONFIRMATION -- I. Introduction -- II. Modern Historiography on Baxter's Baptismal Thought -- III. Context of Baxter's Emerging Baptismal Thought -- IV. Theological Considerations in Baxter's Baptismal Thought -- V. Revitalized Confirmation: The "Perfecting" of Infant Baptism and Covenant Renewal -- VI. Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR: BETWEEN HOLY FAST AND UNHOLY FEAST: BAXTER'S EUCHARISTIC THOUGHT IN CONTEXT -- I. Introduction -- II. The Puritan Context of the Struggle for the Purity of the Lord's Supper -- III. Baxter's Eucharistic Theology and the Question of Open Admission -- IV. Preparation, Assurance, and the Communion of Saints -- V. On Reforming Primitive Pastoral Discipline -- VI. Conclusion -- PART II: UNITY, PURITY, AND LIBERTY PURSUED -- CHAPTER FIVE: THE PURSUIT OF PURITY IN UNITY: THE WORCESTERSHIRE ASSOCIATION AND THE RHETORIC OF PARTIAL CONFORMITY -- I. Introduction: Historical and Historiographical -- II. Pursuing Purity without Separatism: A Puritan Dilemma.

III. The Worcestershire Association: Its Genesis and Activity for the Pursuit of Purity in Unity in the Context of Religious Radicalism in the 1650s -- IV. Purity Perfected and Anti-Popery Continued: The Quaker Threat and Baxter's Interpretation of the Proliferation of Sects -- V. Occasional Communion and the Limits of Non-Conformity -- VI. Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX: SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOCINIANISM, ANTINOMIANISM, AND DOCTRINAL UNITY IN PRIMITIVE PURITY -- I. Introduction -- II. The Clash of 1654 and Its Theological Background -- III. Baxter, Sola Scriptura, Socinianism, and the Problem of Primitive Purity -- IV. Baxter's Theological Pedigree -- V. John Owen and Richard Baxter: Common Puritan Past, Divergent Dissenting Future? -- VI. Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN: IN PURSUIT OF LIBERTY: THE GROTIAN RELIGION AND THE "TRUE" HISTORY OF PURITANISM -- I. Introduction -- II. The Problem of the Grotian Religion: Liberty and Legitimacy of Reformed Ministry -- III. The Quest for the "Right" History of the Puritans -- IV. Conclusion -- CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- I. Manuscripts -- II. Works by Richard Baxter -- III. Other Printed Primary Sources -- IV. Secondary Sources: Reference Works -- V. Secondary Sources: Monographs -- VI. Secondary Sources: Essays and Articles -- VII. Unpublished Theses -- INDEX OF NAMES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- INDEX OF TERMS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.