Richard Greenham and the Calvinist Construction of God

• Autores: Leif Dixon
• Localización: Journal of ecclesiastical history, ISSN 0022-0469, Vol. 61, Nº 4, 2010, págs. 729-745
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Richard Greenham has traditionally been depicted as a ‘comfortable’ or ‘affectionate’ divine, and in recent years it has even been suggested that he was not predestinarian in his theology at all. This article seeks to show that not only was he indeed predestinarian in his theology of salvation, but that the concept of an all-powerful, all-determining deity was central to his pastoral method. Greenham is used as an example in demonstrating that English Calvinism could be pastorally adaptive and successful, not by softening its core ideas, but by strongly emphasising man's inability to earn his own salvation and God's power over both heaven and hell.