The Doctrine of the Extent of the Atonement among the Early English Particular Baptists
| Autor: | David H. Wenkel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies History media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Religious studies Doctrine 02 engineering and technology Ambiguity Atonement Variety (linguistics) Confession 0506 political science Focus (linguistics) Argument 050602 political science & public administration media_common |
| Zdroj: | Harvard Theological Review. 112:358-375 |
| ISSN: | 1475-4517 0017-8160 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0017816019000166 |
| Popis: | This essay challenges the view that the early English Baptists who are often labeled as “Particular Baptists” always held a doctrine of strict particularism or particular redemption. It does so on the basis of the two London Baptist Confessions of 1644 and 1646. The main argument asserted here is that the two earliest confessions of the English Particular Baptists supported a variety of positions on the doctrine of the atonement because they focus on the subjective application of Christ’s work rather than his objective accomplishment. The first two editions of the earliest London Baptist confession represent a unique voice that reflects an attempt to include a range of Calvinistic views on the atonement. Such careful ambiguity reflects the pattern of Reformed confessionalism in the seventeenth century. This paper then goes on to argue that some individuals did indeed hold to “strict particularism”—which is compatible with, but not required by, the first two confessions. |
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