In pursuit of purity, unity, and liberty : : Richard Baxter's Puritan ecclesiology in its seventeenth-century context / / by Paul Chang-Ha Lim.
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| Superior document: | Studies in the history of Christian thought, v. 112 |
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| 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 |
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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
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- INDEX OF TERMS
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