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Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. In older scholarship it was common to view the theology of this period -- typically labelled 'orthodoxy' -- as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content. Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively minimally in works reassessing orthodoxy, and thus many of the older stereotypes concerning post-Reformation Reformed theology in a Scottish context persist. This collection of essays aims to redress that failure by purposely examining post-Reformation Scottish theology/theologians through a lens provided by the gains made in recent scholarly evaluations of Reformed orthodoxy, and by highlighting, in that process, the significant contribution which Scottish divines of the

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Author

Aaron Clay Denlinger (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury TetT Clark

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780567108685

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, History