Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century. By Maria Rosa Antognazza

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-331
Author(s):  
Terrance G. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Trinity

From Seeker to Finder: A Study in Seventeenth-Century English Spiritualism Before The Quakers

1948 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Arthur Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
British History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Trinity

The period of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth in England was one of the most momentous epochs in British history. For small groups of people the decade of the 1640's inaugurated a New Age—an age in which the Holy Spirit reigned triumphant. Such believers reached the zenith of Puritan “spiritualism,” or that movement which placed the greatest emphasis upon the Third Person of the Trinity.

Socinianism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Free Will ◽  
John Locke ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Church Authority ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
The Trinity

Socinianism was both the name for a sixteenth- and seventeenth-century theological movement which was a forerunner of modern unitarianism, and, much less precisely, a polemic term of abuse suggesting positions in common with that ‘heretical’ movement. Socinianism was explicitly undogmatic but centred on disbelief in the Trinity, original sin, the satisfaction, and the natural immortality of the soul. Some Socinians were materialists. Socinians focused on moralism and Christ’s prophetic role; the elevation of reason in interpreting Scripture against creeds, traditions and church authority; and support for religious toleration. The term was used polemically against many theorists, including Hugo Grotius, William Chillingworth, the Latitudinarians, and John Locke, who emphasized free will, moralism, the role and capacity of reason, and that Christianity included only a very few fundamental doctrines necessary for salvation.

Minimal Faith and Irenic Ideals in Seventeenth-Century Scholarly Circles

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henk Nellen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Articles Of Faith ◽  
Second Category ◽  
The Trinity

This article shows how the Dutch humanist Hugo Grotius (1583–1645), inspired by his friend Isaac Casaubon, sought to introduce a procedure for mitigating strife in the Christian church. He proclaimed a division between a set of self-evident, universally accepted key tenets, to be endorsed by all believers, and a larger number of secondary, not completely certain articles of faith, which were to be left open for friendly debate. The doctrine of the Trinity belonged to the second category; it should be treated in a careful, detached way, in words that did not go beyond the terminology of the Bible. However, defenders of this irenic stance laid themselves open to severe criticism: the example of the conservative Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrates how they were censured for giving up divinely inspired truth for a chimerical unionist ideal which cajoled them into reintroducing the early Christian heresy of Arianism, now called Socinianism.

John Bunyan and Socinianism

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 580-600
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS SEAGER
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Bunyan ◽  
Justification By Faith ◽  
Biblical Typology ◽  
The Trinity

This article recovers John Bunyan's engagement with Socinianism in his doctrinal and imaginative writings. After surveying the rise of Socinianism in seventeenth-century England, the article augments the known theological contexts of Bunyan's disputes with the Quakers and the Latitudinarians by showing that he charges these groups with slighting the Son and so associates them with anti-Trinitarian heresy. Bunyan's recourse when affirming the Trinity is to biblical typology, a hermeneutical method and manner of structuring narratives which Bunyan uses to uphold the embattled orthodox views of Christ's divinity, the propitiatory atonement and justification by faith.

scholarly journals TRINITARIAN DOXOLOGY: REASSESSING JOHN OWEN’S CONTRIBUTION TO REFORMED ORTHODOX TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-68
Author(s):  
Ryan M McGraw
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Covenant Theology ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
Theological Foundations ◽  
John Owen ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Or Applications

Reformed orthodox theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) referred to the doctrine of the Trinity as ‘the foundation of fundamentals’. Richard Muller notes that if any dogma comes close to achieving such status, it is the doctrine of the Trinity. It is thus surprising that most modern treatments of trinitarian theology assume that sixteenth and seventeenth century Reformed orthodoxy had virtually nothing to contribute to this vital doctrine. The recent Cambridge Companion to the Trinity and the Oxford Handbook of the Trinity both reflect this assumption. This article addresses how Reformed authors tried to harmonise the historical doctrine of the Trinity with their principle of sola scriptura. It does not treat positive developments or applications of the doctrine. The void left in the secondary literature has not adequately probed the bold claims of Voetius or the scholarly reflections of Muller. John Owen (1616-1683) is a growing exception to this trend. Both historians and theologians are starting to recognise his significance as a theologian in general and a trinitarian theologian in particular, but they often stop short of observing how he intertwined his trinitarian theology and piety throughout his writings. This article will reassess Owen’s contribution to Reformed trinitarian theology in two major segments. The first does so by critiquing two recent treatments of his work. The remaining material explores the theological foundations of Owen’s trinitarian doxology followed by the theological and practical conclusions that he drew from his theology in relation to Scripture, spiritual affections, covenant theology, and ecclesiology. Owen illustrates that one of the primary contributions of Reformed orthodoxy to trinitarian theology lies in its integration into Reformed soteriology and piety. This article reassesses Owen’s contribution to trinitarian theology and provides clues for scholars to trace the significance of the Reformed contribution to trinitarian theology in other authors within that tradition.

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