Nice and Hot Disputes.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Bones to Philosophy, but Milke to Faith -- The Practice of Pietie -- The Christian's ABC -- The Hymnes and Songs of the Church -- Batter my Heart -- Three Faces in a Knot -- The Matter and Stile of Sermons -- The Rhythm of the Liturgy -- 2 The Rise, Growth and Danger of Socinianisme -- Libertinisme and Fearful Anarchy -- Italian Atheism -- A Mystery of Iniquity, Three Headed Cerberus -- The Rise, Growth and Danger of Socinianisme -- God Is the Name of a Person -- The Divine Triunity -- The Metropolitical Seat of Socinianism -- 3 A Strange Wheemsie Concerning the Blessed Trinity -- That he Was a Christian 'tis Clear -- Let him Take a Schoole-Man into his Hands -- The True God May Be Personated -- The Catching of Leviathan -- As Many Persons as we Please -- Sollicited from Beyond the Sea, to Translate the Book into Latin -- He is no Good Christian -- The True Intellectual System of the Universe -- 4 So Many Wrong Trinities, and More Everyday Increasing -- The Naked Truth -- The First of the Whole Creation -- An Error in Counting -- Nice and Hot Disputes -- The Persons. . . Are Three Distinct and Infinite Minds -- God . . . Cannot be Three Such Persons -- Dr. W's Three New Nothings -- He Cryed Nonesense before he Could Speak it -- Meer Empty Words . . . Persons, Properties, Thingams -- Jangling and Wrangling about the Meaning of the Word 'Person' -- 5 A Well-Willer to the Racovian Way -- We must Consider What Person Stands for -- Our Sense of a Person is Plain -- Christianity not Mysterious -- Borrowed to Serve Other Purposes -- Without Any Thought of the Controversy -- My Bible Is Faulty -- Jesus Is the Messiah -- 6 The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity -- Not in the Ordinary and Vulgar Sense -- The Queen's Majesty . . . the Most Apposite Emblem -- Primitive Christianity -- Arius redivivus.

Equally Unscriptural -- No Reasoning Can Make it Plainer -- Alterum Athanasium -- We Have No Third Way -- This Wretched Argument -- Aquaintance with the Three Divine Persons -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

At the beginning of the seventeenth century the doctrine of the Trinity was still a central theme in Christian Theology. By the end of the century it was fast becoming peripheral. As theologians today increasingly recognize the Trinity to be at the very heart of the Christian theology, the question of 'what went wrong' three hundred years ago is a matte of growing interest. Whereas most studies of the history of tinritarian doctrine neglect the seventeenth century almost entirely, Philip Dixon argues that this is a key period in the history and development of the doctrine and, indeed, essential for contemporary understanding. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, Dixon examines the Socinian and anti-Socinian writings of the 1640s and 1650s, including Biddle and Cheynell, and their legacy for the disputes of the 1690s; the trinitarian theology of Hobbes and the violent reaction of his critics; the debates from the Restoration to the 1690s, including Milton, Nye, and Bury; the writings of Locke and Stillingfleet; and the continuation and development of these disputes into the early eighteenth century. A final chapter offers some significant conclusions for students of systematic and historical theology alike. In the breadth of its scope and in the importance of the material uncovered, this book makes an unique contribution to the understanding of trinitarian theology and practice.

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