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A Trinitarian and incarnational theology -- Andrewes' political theology -- Andrewes' anti-puritanism -- Puritan politics -- The tree of repentance and its fruits -- Absent presences : the role of predestination in Andrewes' divinity -- The visible church and its ordinances -- The house of God -- The house of God and the beauty of holiness -- The beauty of holiness and ceremonial conformity -- Church ceremonies, the authority of the church and the authority of scripture -- Prayer -- Preaching -- The sacrament and the altar -- The sacrament and the social body of the church -- The altar and visible succession -- The feasts and festivals of the church, or putting the sabbath in its place -- Sunday sports and the re-constitution of the Christian community and the social order -- The sabbath and the Laudian attitude to authority -- Order, puritanism and the state of the English church -- Puritan 'privacy', or the forms of puritan voluntary religion anatomised -- A religion of the word and the question of authority -- Puritanism, popularity and politics -- Of moderate puritans and popular prelates -- The puritan threat, the church of England and the Personal Rule as a period of reformation. -- Laudianism, puritanism and Arminianism revisited -- The language of mystery -- Fatal necessity -- Predestination, the positive case : of justice and mercy, prescience and predestination -- Faith, hope and charity -- Effort without merit : repentance, amendment and the works of penitence -- Dis-aggregating, or the pleasures and benefits of splitting -- Of converts, collaborators and apostates (i) : puritans -- Of converts, collaborators and apostates (ii) : Calvinist conformists -- Of apparatchiks, zealots, and coming men -- The Laudian avant garde, (i) young men in a hurry : Cambridge University in the 1630s -- The Laudian avant garde, (ii) old men in a hurry : Robert Shelford, James Buck and Edward Kellett -- Tacking and trimming : negotiating the end of 'the Laudian moment.' |
