Puritans

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The New Year is a time for lists. Top ten lists of this and top one hundred lists of that! So, at Place for Truth we decided to make our own list of tops. The first is a list of the ten most clicked (and hopefully read!) articles of 2018. The second is a list of the top five podcasts of 2018. Enjoy...

T he end of the year is close at hand, so we decided to look back at some of our most popular articles from 2018. Here's a list of our top ten: 10. Philip Ryken, The Crook in the Lot God rules the universe, even when we suffer. For some this is a bitter pill to swallow; for Thomas Boston (1676-1732...

Ralph Erskine (1685-1752) was born ten years after his mother Margaret was pronounced dead. The pronouncement had been mistaken, but she would have indeed been dead if a greedy sexton had not laid his eyes on her precious ring. Under cover of night, the sexton disinterred her body. Finding the ring...

Sinclair B. Ferguson, Some Pastors and Teachers: Reflecting a Biblical Vision of What Every Minister Is Called to Be . Banner of Truth, 2017. 796pp. Hardcover. I nterest in Puritanism has gained traction in the past fifty years or so. This has had mixed results. On the one hand, the resurgence of...

Life in England R ecently , I have been immersing myself in the life and work of William Tyndale (c.1494–1536). Some time ago on this blog , I considered his biblical exegesis and called him (in agreement with many others) a proto-Puritan, which simply identifies him as an “early-stage” (a...

The first trailer for the upcoming movie Puritan is now online here .

T he counterpart to (English) Antinomianism, which I considered last time , is Neonomianism. People today typically use the term “Neonomian” to depict views that they consider to be legalistic or moralistic. Historically, however, it was coined and employed by English Congregationalists at the end...

The Life of John Geree John Geree is thought to have been born in 1601 in Yorkshire County in the north of England. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford University in 1615 and graduated B.A. in 1619 and M.A. in 1621. While it may seem extraordinary to us to have a Master’s degree by age 20, this was...

I n several articles, I have referred to the so-called “ antinomians ” by which I mean the 17th century English theologians who were labelled antinomians. In this article, I will provide a brief explanation of English antinomianism. The term “antinomian” was a term of abuse and rejected by most if...