On Being Reformed: Debates over a Theological Identity (Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World)

by Crawford Gribben (Author), Crawford Gribben (Author), Chris Caughey (Author), D. G. Hart (Author), Matthew C. Bingham (Author), R. Scott Clark (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $86.57

  This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion. In March 2009, TIME magazine listed `the new Calvinism' as being among the `ten ideas shaping the world.' In response to this revitalisation of reformation thought, R. Scott Clark and D. G. Hart have proposed a definition of `Reformed' that excludes many of the theologians who have done most to promote this driver of global religious change. In this book, the Clark-Hart proposal becomes the focus of a debate. Matthew Bingham, Chris Caughey, and Crawford Gribben suggest a broader and (they argue) more historically responsible definition for `Reformed,' as Hart and Scott respond to their arguments.