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Book SynopsisThe relationship between English conformity and the Arminian tradition has long defied neat explanation. In Bisschop''s Bench, Samuel D. Fornecker charts the incompatible theological agendas into which post-Restoration Arminian conformity proliferated and challenges the thesis that a monolithic Arminianism marched steadily from the post-Restoration period into the early Hanoverian.Fornecker examines the theological life of the English Church by paying particular attention to the Arminian conformists who accentuated Reformed divinity in an unprecedented display of disambiguation from the Dutch Arminian tradition and those who exercised authority from the Bishops'' bench. By demonstrating the scope of intra-Arminian divergence and the negatively defined consensus that united traditionalist clergy otherwise at odds over grace and predestination, Bisschop''s Bench provides an illuminating perspective on the Arminian tradition in the political, confessional, and educative contexts of late s
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Episcopian Divinity in Restoration Cambridge: Joseph Beaumont, Simon Episcopius, and the Nova Theologia 3. A Merely Specifick Trinity? Reactions to William Sherlock in Context 4. A Hound for the Heresy Hunt 5. Augustinians and Arminians? The Augustinian Doctrine of Original Sin in Augustan Arminianism 6. The Strictest Athanasians: The Trinitarian Theology of Daniel Waterland in Context 7. The Trojan Horse Unbowelled: William Nicholls, Jean Le Clerc, and the Meaning of Arminianism in Later Stuart England Conclusion
