High Calvinists in Action: Calvinism and the City. Manchester and London, c.1810–1860. By Ian J. Shaw. Pp. xii + 413. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. isbn 0 19 925077 4. £55
As Ian Shaw notes in his introduction, the prevailing view of nineteenth-century High Calvinists is not a happy one. They have generally been portrayed as marginal to English religious life, as scholastic and detached, as eccentric or antinomian, or as the ‘ignorant preaching to the illiterate’. In...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 783-785 |
| Review of: | High Calvinists in action (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2002) (Smith, Mark)
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| Summary: | As Ian Shaw notes in his introduction, the prevailing view of nineteenth-century High Calvinists is not a happy one. They have generally been portrayed as marginal to English religious life, as scholastic and detached, as eccentric or antinomian, or as the ‘ignorant preaching to the illiterate’. In this thoroughly researched and convincingly argued study of urban High Calvinism, Shaw seeks to challenge this stereotype and to paint in an alternative picture. A useful opening chapter sketches the development of the English Calvinist tradition from the late eighteenth century to the 1860s. It pays particular attention to the ‘High Calvinists’ and ‘Evangelical Calvinists’ who held to the doctrine of limited atonement rather than to the ‘Moderate Calvinists’ who did not. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli228 |