John Bunyan and Socinianism

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 Latitudinaria...

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Published inThe Journal of ecclesiastical history Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 580 - 600
Main Author SEAGER, NICHOLAS
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2014
Subjects
Bible
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
Christianity
English literature
Religious law
Theology
United Kingdom > UK
England
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-0469
1469-7637
DOI:10.1017/S0022046913000596