Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590-1640

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 19; p. 126
• Main Author: Parry, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Anxiety; Bibliographic literature; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Christianity; English literature; Funerals; Sermons; United Kingdom > UK; Europe; England

[...]Dixon focuses more on pastorally comforting responses to predestination, redressing a balance in the scholarly literature, while not wholly ignoring instances in which predestinarian belief caused distress. Dixon argues that the doctrine of predestination, though in some form 'as old as Ch...