In this landmark volume, Samuel Rutherford appears as Scotland’s foremost professor of elenctic theology. Presented in English for the first time, Arminianism: A Systematic and Theological Response offers a comprehensive examination of the theological roots of one of the most consequential errors in the Christian church.Rutherford does not confine himself to a handful of theses about salvation. Beginning with Scripture and the knowledge of God, he advances through the divi...

Church history often focuses on significant events or individuals, while neglecting the everyday lives of ordinary church members. The Wapping Baptists explores the culture and convictions of a congregation. While the church has attracted some attention from historians—primarily, because of the published works of one of its pastors, Hercules Collins—this book explores the interplay between doctrine and devotion. That is, beyond its pastors, who were the people? What did they value...

Dan Noakes inherits a license granting sole rights to fish for eels in Grimsby Docks. The license was gifted to his family in King John's time, but is it a blessing or a curse?Gritty portrayal of contemporary Grimsby and its fishing industry from fisherman John Coffey.

Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus and Liberation argues that the Exodus story carried one of the big ideas in Anglophone political culture - the idea of deliverance. In the sixteenth century, Calvinist rebels and reformers...

As he grows old, sea captain William Wright is cruelly exiled from his house by his son and daughter-in-law. Forced to live in the garden shed, he is left only with his memories, but designs a unique and terrible revenge on his banishers.Gritty family tale of Grimsby and its contemporary seafaring industry from sailor John Coffey.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts, separatists were few in number, and Dissen...

The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By this point, evangelicalism had emerged as a major religious force across the British Isles, making inroads among Anglicans as well as Irish and Scottish Presbyterians. Evangelical Dissent proliferated through thousands of Meth...

This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history.The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when superstition and received truth were overthrown. The book questions how far England moved towards becoming a liberal society at that time and whether or not the end of the century crowned a p...

'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broadens our understanding of Puritanism, showing h...

Will the early years of the new century continue to witness the huge growth in merger and acquisition activity which marked the end of the last? The chances are that they will - witness the value of deals carried out by the top five investment banks in the first quarter of 2001 alone ($456.2 billion). The quest for the golden fleece is alive and well. Will the majority of M&As continue to fail to achieve their potential value? This book is about breaking out of the cycle of grand strategy,...