A Hot Pepper Corn: Richard Baxters Doctrine of Justification in Its Seventeenth-Century Context of Controversy Boersma HansPevná vazba

This study takes the reader to the intriguing debates on justification in seventeenth-century English Puritan thought. Justification, Baxter insisted, required at least some degree of faith and works as the human response to the love of God. Richard Baxter (1615-91), the well-known Kidderminster pastor and theologian, insisted that the Calvinists of his day, with their unyielding emphasis on the sola fide of the Reformation, ran the danger of ignoring the conditions that came with God's gift of the covenant of grace.

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