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A Question of Consensus The Doctrine of Assurance after the Westminster Confession
- Title
- A Question of Consensus [electronic resource] : The Doctrine of Assurance after the Westminster Confession / Jonathan Master.
- Author
- Master, Jonathan.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (233 pages))
- Summary
- From the very earliest days after its completion in 1646, the Westminster Confession's position on assurance has been a subject of controversy. In this exciting new work, Jonathan Master considers the Westminster Confession's statements on assurance as a position of consensus among a diversity of viewpoints. Master traces how from this one position, the idea was expanded and modified--even by the document's own authors!--just years after its reception, in very distinct ways. Each of these expansions on what was intended to be a consensus document forms the basis for later traditions regarding assurance within the Reformed and Evangelical traditions. To date, few studies have examined these expansions as a united whole, and Master's work highlights the ways in which the streams of thought flowing out of Westminster are as important as those flowing into it, raising as they do questions about confession and doctrinal freedom in the growing Reformed tradition.
- Uniform Title
- Question of Consensus (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Question of Consensus (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Setting the stage : Calvin, Beza, and the reformed doctrine of assurance before Westminster -- The Westminster consensus -- Moving beyond Westminster -- Anthony Burgess's Framework for assurance -- Further development : the framework for assurance in Thomas Goodwin and John Owen -- The danger of false assurance : frameworks after Westminster -- Conclusion.
- OCLC
- ssj0001502635
- Author
- Master, Jonathan.
- Title
- A Question of Consensus [electronic resource] : The Doctrine of Assurance after the Westminster Confession / Jonathan Master.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 1451469411 9781451469417