Anti-Extreme-Fatalists?

So I got Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism c. 1590-1640 (Oxford Historical Monographs) out of the Library again (i.e. after doing it the first time twelve years ago).

I’ll probably be blogging some more about it.  In my opinion, the “extremism” of the Calvinists might explain why they were so credibly though slanderously lumped with the Puritans.

Here’s stuff I’ve posted from before:

Slandering the English Calvinists

Two Cheers for Arminianism

Someone should have told Cowper that election was good news

Oh, and that last one reminded me of an entry I had forgotten about that was posted by Jandy: on William Cowper.

By the way, the issue was not really “extreme fatalism” in the sense of absolute fore-ordination.  The issue was more the trap that Oedipus found himself in–where he is sent to his destiny despite his decisions and his moral character.

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