The Last Check to Antinomianism. a Polemical Essay on the Twin Doctrines of Christian Imperfection and a Death Purgatory. by the Author of the Checks

The Last Check to Antinomianism. a Polemical Essay on the Twin Doctrines of Christian Imperfection and a Death Purgatory. by the Author of the Checks
Author: John Fletcher
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2018-04-17
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ISBN: 9781379390565

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T090300 Author of the checks = John William Fletcher. A reply to Sir Richard Hill's 'Creed for Arminians and perfectionists'. London: printed by R. Hawes, and sold at the foundery, and by J. Buckland, 1775. 327, [1]p.; 12°

True Christianity

True Christianity
Author: J Russell Frazier
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0227902602

John William Fletcher (1729-1785) was a seminal theologian during the early Methodist movement and in the Church of England in the eighteenth century. Best known for the Checks to Antinomianism, he established a theology of history to defend the church against the encroachment of antinomianism as a polemic against hyper-Calvinism. Fletcher believed that the hyper-Calvinist system of divine fiat and finished salvation did not take seriously enough either the activity of God in salvation history or an individual believer's personal progress in salvation. Fletcher made the doctrine of accommodation a unifying principle of his theological system and further developed the doctrine of divine accommodation into a theology of ministry. As God accommodated divine revelation to the frailties of human beings, Fletcher argued that ministers of the gospel must accommodate the gospel to their hearers in order to gain a hearing for the gospel without losing the goal of true Christianity. 'True Christianity' contains insights from Fletcher, who devoted himself, according to Wesley, to being 'an altogether Christian'.