Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism C. 1590-1640

by Nicholas Tyacke

Overview

Anti-Calvinists traces the rise of Arminianism from Elizabethan times, and argues that the subsequent proscription of Calvinism in the 1620s was a major cause of the civil war that broke out in 1642. As Arminianism triumphed under Charles I, it rekindled Puritan opposition to the established church. The theological dispute between Arminianism and Calvinism—Arminianism promoting the role of the sacraments and the grace they conferred, and Calvinism focusing on the grace of predestination—assumed greater significance as a struggle for control of the church itself. A provocative reinterpretation of the divisions of the Church of England, this work throws new light on the origins of the civil war and the role played by religious rivalry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198201847
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	12/13/1990
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)