Heretics Within: Anthony Wotton, John Goodwin and the Orthodox Divines

by David Parnham

Book Overview

When, early in the seventeenth century, the puritan pastor Anthony Wotton started to circulate manuscript statements of his theological revision, he was courting danger. Wotton was at once bold and subtle, a provocation to clerical brethren yet a skilled exponent of their technical disciplines. He addressed matters of fundamental importance: Christ's redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God's saving grace and the moral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845196910
• ISBN13: 9781845196912
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.7" x 9.4"