Predestination, Policy and Polemic : Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War (Paperback)

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The polemics of predestination: William Prynne and Peter Heylyn; 2. The theology of predestination: Beza and Arminius; 3. Early English Protestantism; 4. The Elizabethan church settlement; 5. Elizabeth's church: the limits of consensus; 6. The Cambridge controversies of the 1590s; 7. Richard Hooker; 8. The early Jacobean church; 9. The Synod of Dort; 10. Policy and polemic, 1619?1623; 11. A gag for the Gospel? Richard Montagu and Protestant orthodoxy; 12. Arminianism and the court, 1625?1629; 13. Thomas Jackson; 14. Neile and Laud on predestination; 15. The personal rule, 1629?1640; Select bibliography; Index.