English Hypothetical Universalism: John Preston and the Softening of Reformed Theology. By Jonathan D. Moore. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. xx + 306 pp. $36.00 paper.

摘要

John Preston was a person of influence at the court of James I as a chaplain tonPrince Charles and on those of Puritan sympathies as master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Many books during the past generation have broadlynredrawn the picture of the ecclesiastical and theological life of latenElizabethan and early Stuart England, and yet, in spite of his importance,nthere has not been a narrowly focused monograph on the career, theology,nand significance of John Preston in the light of that scholarship. JonathannMoore has filled this gap in the four sections of this book, which take upnPreston’s life, theological heritage, theological reformulations, and thensources of those reformulations.