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Paul C. H. Lim offers an insightful examination of the polemical debates about the doctrine of the Trinity in seventeenth-century England, showing that this philosophical and theological re-configuration significantly impacted the politics of religion in the early modern period. Through analysis of these heated polemics, Lim shows how Trinitarian God-Talk became untenable in many ecclesiastical and philosophical circles, which led to the emergence of Unitarianism. He also demonstrates that those who continued to embrace Trinitarian doctrine articulated their piety and theological perspectives in an increasingly secularized culture of discourse. Drawing on both unexplored manuscripts and well-known treatises of Continental and English provenance, he unearths the complex layers of the polemic: from biblical exegesis to reception history of patristic authorities, from popular religious radicalism during the Civil War to Puritan spirituality, from Continental Socinians to English anti-trinitarians who avowed their relative independent theological identity, from the notion of the Platonic captivity of primitive Christianity to that of Plato as

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Mystery Unveiled
• Subtitle: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England
• Author: Paul C. H. Lim
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 512
• EAN: 9780195339468
• ISBN: 0195339460
• ID: 04518117
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 794 g
• Dimensions: 241 × 165 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. September 2012

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