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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462380103321

Autore

Burton Simon J. G

Titolo

The hallowing of logic [[electronic resource] ] : the Trinitarian method of Richard Baxter's Methodus theologiae / / by Simon J.G. Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49620-7

9786613591432

90-04-22641-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (430 p.)

Collana

Brill's series in church history, , 1572-4107 ; ; v. 57

Disciplina

230/.59092

Soggetti

Theology - Methodology

Trinity - History of doctrines

Salvation - Christianity - History of doctrines

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1. Introduction.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- I. Touchstones of Theology -- II. The Quest for Method -- III. The Physics and Metaphysics of the Vestigia Trinitatis -- IV. The Soul as the Imago Trinitatis -- V. Metaphysics of the Trinity -- VI. The Eternal Foundations of Divine Government I: Divine Power, Understanding and Will -- VII. The Eternal Foundations of Divine Government II: Predestination and Foreknowledge -- VIII. Theo-Politics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

While Richard Baxter (1615-91) has been called the ‘chief of English Protestant schoolmen’, few studies of his theology exist, and none of his major systematic work the Methodus Theologiae (1681). Through examining the scriptural and metaphysical foundations of his exemplaristic logic, and engaging extensively with his medieval and early modern sources, this study presents Baxter’s understanding of method as the unfolding of the believer’s relation with the Triune God through salvation history, revealing his profound debt to Scotist and Nominalist thought. In tracing the manifold ramifications of this method it offers a fresh reading of Baxter’s soteriology, countering the



charges of moralism and rationalism often levelled at him, and placing his thought within a scholastic paradigm of ‘faith seeking understanding’.