The issue of Eternal Security has Christians divided on both sides; especially when it comes to the warning in chapter six of the book of Hebrews. It is a controversial book that has been debated for centuries due to its intense contents. This thesis will present the contentious…
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This thesis offers a new interpretation of the origins of eighteenth-century popular political consciousness in Scotland during the second half of the eighteenth century by considering the relationship between Presbyterianism, literacy and political activity, and it examines the…
John Erskine was the leading Evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Educated in an enlightened setting at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate the epistemology of John Locke and other empiricists alongside key Scottish Enlig…
The authority of Scripture is the cornerstone of Reformed theology. Calvin introduced the term autopistos from Greek philosophy to express that this authority does not depend on the church or on rational arguments, but is self-convincing.
The history of Christianity reveals an incessant struggle between Calvinistic and Arminian thought. This conflict often finds a focus in how man's depravity affects his responsibility to God. If because of the Fall man is unable to respond to God, how then can God hold him respo…
This research project explores Biblical, Qur'anic, Hindu, and historical perspectives of the Christian Churches including the Bengali Christians on the assurance of salvation in order to equip the Bengali Christians with the assurance of salvation for evangelism by the Bengali C…
This paper argues that the synodal network, courtesy of Dutch refugees fleeing Spanish persecution in the late 1560s, gave the German-speaking Reformed congregation in Cologne the tools they required to plant deep roots in a Catholic city. Through mutual aid and solidarity, thes…
This dissertation contributes to the study of American Christianity by tracing the apocalyptic thought of New England evangelical Calvinism from Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) to Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). Covering the period of the First Great Awakening in the eighteenth century …
This thesis examines the connections between Calvinism and early modern subjectivity as expressed in the drama produced during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. By looking at a range of theological, medical, popular, legal and polemical writings, the thesis aims to provide …
