Swimming with the Reformed Tide: John Forbes of Corse (1593-1648) on Double Predestination and Particular Redemption
The 1640 General Assembly of the Kirk, dominated by Covenanters, was keen to discover something amiss in the doctrine of the Episcopalian John Forbes of Corse. Ultimately they were forced to admit his orthodoxy, even while deposing him for his refusal to subscribe the National Covenant. Modern schol...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2015, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-89 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Forbes, John 1593-1648
/ Calvinism
/ Predestination
/ Redemption
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBF British Isles KDD Protestant Church NBK Soteriology NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
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| Summary: | The 1640 General Assembly of the Kirk, dominated by Covenanters, was keen to discover something amiss in the doctrine of the Episcopalian John Forbes of Corse. Ultimately they were forced to admit his orthodoxy, even while deposing him for his refusal to subscribe the National Covenant. Modern scholars have succeeded where Forbes's contemporary antagonists failed, representing Forbes as the champion of a party that was, to one degree or another, out of step with the Calvinist orthodoxy of the day. This article examines Forbes's theology at points where his disagreement with contemporary reformed thought has been claimed, and draws implications from its findings for our knowledge and understanding of seventeenth-century Scottish theology more broadly. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046913002613 |