Herbert Thorndike and the Covenant of Grace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10089243 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Mcgiffert (National Center for State Courts, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 440-460 |
| Publication date | 2007-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0469 • E-ISSN: 1469-7637 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022046907001571 |
| OpenAlex | W2013298269 |
| Language | EN |
Herbert Thorndike's Of the covenant of grace (1659) was the largest and last substantial word on its subject from a priest of the seventeenth-century English Church. Recasting elements of practical divinity that are commonly associated with evangelical Puritanism, attacking the error of absolute and immediate predestination by decree and shifting stress from baptism to regeneration, Thorndike defended God's honour and majesty by affirming human freedom of choice in the ordo salutis and the moral life. His argument centred in a programme of reciprocal ‘helps’ that unites Arminian synergism with the early modern scholastic concept of scientia media , God's ‘middle knowledge’
Argument (complex analysis · Baptism · Covenant · Decree · Divinity · Honour · Political science · Predestination · Subject (documents · Subordination (linguistics · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |