Reformed Orthodoxy in Scotland Essays on Scottish Theology 1560-1775 [Paperback]

Recent decades have witnessed much scholarly reassessment of late-sixteenth through eighteenth-century Reformed theology. It was common to view the theology of this period-typically labelled 'orthodoxy'-as sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought of the early reformers. Recent scholars have taken a more balanced approach, examining orthodoxy on its own terms and subsequently highlighting points of continuity between orthodoxy and both Reformation and pre-Reformation theologies, in terms of form as well as content.

Until now Scottish theology and theologians have figured relatively minimally in works reassessing orthodoxy, and thus many of the older stereotypes concerning post-Reformation Reformed theology in a Scottish context persist. This collection of essays aims to redress that failure by purposely examining post-Reformation Scottish theology/theologians through a lens provided by the gains made in recent scholarly evaluations of Reformed orthodoxy, and by highlighting, in that process, the significant contribution which Scottish divines of the orthodox era made to Reformed theology as an international intellectual phenomenon.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Introduction
Carl Trueman,Westminster Theological Seminary, USA

Part 1: Early Reformed Orthodoxy (c.1560-c.1640)

Chapter 1: Knox versus the Knoxians? Predestination in John Knox and Seventeenth-Century Federal Theology
Donald John MacLean, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK

Andrew Melville and Christian Hebraism: The Humanist Legacy of a Renaissance
Scholar
Ernest R. Holloway III, Westminster Theological Seminary, USA

The Eternal Decree in the Incarnate Son: Robert Rollock on the Relationship between Christ and Election
Brannon Ellis, Acquisitions Editlƒ*