Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective : Retrieving Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633) for Contemporary Ecclesiology /

Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective : Retrieving Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633) for Contemporary Ecclesiology /

In Ordained Ministry in Free Church Perspective Jan Martijn Abrahamse presents a constructive theology of ordained ministry by returning to the life and thought of the English Separatist Robert Browne (c. 1550-1633). This study makes a substantial contribution not only by solving one of the most tho...

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Main Author: Abrahamse, Jan Martijn (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.
Studies in Reformed Theology ; 41.

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Church history.

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Call Number: BR65.P473

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction: Challenges and Controversies
  • 1.1 Ministering a Gathering
  • 1.2 Restoring Our Story
  • 1.3 Doing Systematic Theology by Retrieval
  • 1.4 Historical Challenges
  • 1.5 Systematic Challenges
  • 1.6 Ordained Ministry in Browne's Historiography
  • 1.7 Ordained Ministry: Areas of Controversy
  • 1.8 Outline and Prospect
  • Part 1: A Reconstruction of Robert Browne's Theology of Ordained Ministry
  • 2 Ordained Ministry in the Context of Sixteenth-Century Cambridge: A History of Controversy
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Story of Robert Browne
  • 2.3 Reformation and Nonconformity at Cambridge University
  • 2.4 Ordained Ministry in the Context of Cambridge
  • 2.5 Conclusions
  • 3 Ordained Ministry in Browne's Separatist Literature (1582-1585): A Theology of Covenant
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 A Treatise of Reformation without Tarying for Anie (1582)
  • 3.3 A Treatise vpon the 23. of Matthewe (1582)
  • 3.4 A Booke Which Sheweth the Life and Manners (1582)
  • 3.5 A True and Short Declaration (1583)
  • 3.6 An Answere to Master Cartwright (1585)
  • 3.7 Ordained Ministry in Robert Browne's Ecclesiology: An Assessment
  • 3.8 Conclusions
  • part 2: A Retrieval of Robert Browne's Theology of Ordained Ministry
  • 4 Controversy After Christendom: Ordained Ministry in the Ecclesiologies of Stanley Hauerwas and Kevin Vanhoozer
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Problem of a Distinctive Ministry
  • 4.3 The Suspicion Toward Authority
  • 4.4 Ordination and the Fear of Clericalism
  • 4.5 Systematic Directions and Browne's Contributions
  • 4.6 Conclusions
  • 5 Reforming Controversy into Covenant: A Retrieval of Robert Browne's Theology of Ordained Ministry
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Criterion 1: Communal Priesthood
  • 5.3 Criterion 2: Permanent Accountability
  • 5.4 Criterion 3: Interdependence
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.