Abstract It is well known that, alongside Lutheranism and Calvinism, other, even more radical forms of Protestantism emerged in the 16th century, attacking fundamental Christian beliefs such as dogma Trinity. However, neither Catholic, nor Protestant states welcomed heterodox views, so their proponents were forced to flee East, where they permitted build own churches Poland Transylvania. In wes...

Abstract This article presents a significant reinterpretation of an essential text in Scottish (and British) political thought, Samuel Rutherford's Lex, Rex , by analyzing its relationship with Catholic scholasticism. While scholars have observed use authors, there has been no sustained analysis how Rutherford strategically applied this intellectual tradition to the religious and context Britis...

Once a certain picture of God captures our imagination and we learn to put biblical ideas together in a certain way— or once we begin operating from a given theological paradigm, if you will— we almost naturally assume that we are reading the Bible just as it is, whereas our opponents are ignoring important parts of its clear message. According to Bruce Ware, for example, Arminians teach “only ...

a programme for action, it may sanction an interest in accounting for the natural order in some particular way. Such a strident claim as that of the Old School to a monopoly in the only method of acquiring all truth should certainly raise suspicions about what they were defending. Bozeman little more than hints at the opulent landed following of this variety of Calvinism. It would also be inter...

Does God react? Can be disappointed? repent? In the 1990s, a heated controversy over God's openness divided evangelical theologians in North America. On one side stood conservative evangelicals who affirmed God’s sovereignty, omniscience, and omnipotence based on traditional doctrines of Calvinist Puritanism. other were thinkers with Pietist, Methodist, or Pentecostal leanings convinced that do...

A woman ahead of her times, Judith Leyster was born the last child, a prodigy, in the large brood of a cloth maker and brewer in Haarlem. While still in her teens, she earned favorable mention in Description and Praise of the City Haarlem in Poetry, a book by Dutch poet Samuel Ampzing. She received art training, probably from Frans de Grebber and may have worked in the studio of well-known port...

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Previous findings suggest that religion has a specific impact on attentional processes. Here we show that religion also affects action control. Experiment 1 compared Dutch Calvinists and Dutch atheists, matched for age, sex, intelligence, education, and cultural and socio-economic background, and Experiment 2 compared Italian Catholics with matched Italian seculars. As expected, Calvinists show...