Herbert Thorndike and the Covenant of Grace

• Autores: Michael McGiffert
• Localización: Journal of ecclesiastical history, ISSN 0022-0469, Vol. 58, Nº 3, 2007, págs. 440-460
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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’.