Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation assesses the understandings of the Christian doctrine of royal priesthood, long considered one of the three major Reformation teachings, as held by an array of royal, clerical, and popular theologians during the English Reformation. Historians and theologians often present the doctrine according to more recent debates rather than the contextual understandings manifested by the historical figures under consideration. Beginning with a radical reevaluation of John Wyclif and an incisive survey of late medieval accounts, the book challenges the predominant presentation of the doctrine of royal priesthood as primarily individualistic and anticlerical, in the process clarifying these other concepts. It also demonstrates that the late medieval period located more religious authority within the monarchy than is typically appreciated. After the revolutionary use of the doctrine by Martin Luther in early modern Germany, it was wielded variously between and within diverse English royal, clerical, and lay factions under Henry VIII and Edward VI, yet the Old and New Testament passages behind the doctrine were definitely construed in a monarchical direction. With Thomas Cranmer, the English evangelical presentation of the universal priesthood largely received its enduring official shape, but challenges came from within the English magisterium as well as from both radical and conservative religious thinkers. Under the sacred Tudor queens, who subtly and successfully maintained their own sacred authority, the various doctrinal positions hardened into a range of early modern forms with surprising permutations.

Royal Priesthood in the English Reformation (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)

History

Yarnell III, Malcolm B.

World

Oxford University Press

Knowing, loving, and worshiping God is the call and privilege of every disciple of Jesus. Because all Christians are part of his royal priesthood, theology is not just for those teaching in the academy or serving in ministry vocations. Theology proper centers on God, exploring his existence, his divine nature, his Persons, and his attributes. In this book you will find an overview of these truths in the doctrine of God as well as other great truths in the doctrine of divine revelation. You are not simply setting out on a journey toward deeper knowledge. If theological study only results in knowing abstract truths about God, then we have not done theology well. Right theology invariably leads to right living and right worship, and this is our ultimate goal in these books and in this life. God&nbsp;is the first volume of a three-part series entitled&nbsp;Theology for Every Person.&nbsp;The other volumes will include&nbsp;God's Word to the World, which considers God in Christ and his works of creation, humanity, and redemption, and&nbsp;God's Work in the World, which explores God the Holy Spirit and the divine works of salvation, the church, and the end.&nbsp; &nbsp;

God (Volume 1) (Theology for Every Person)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

B&H Books

Word (Volume 2) (Theology for Every Person)

Is the Trinity biblical? Is it necessary to affirm God as three persons in one being? Despite a renewed interest in the Trinity in recent years, many Christians, including most evangelicals, either relegate the Son of God to creaturely status or repudiate the personhood of the Holy Spirit. In addition, numerous scholars affirm that the doctrine of the Trinity is not clearly revealed in Scripture. Is the Trinity merely a philosophical construction, or is it essential to orthodox Christianity? Drawing on hermeneutics and biblical and historical theology, Malcolm Yarnell crafts a careful and clear response to these issues through exegesis of pivotal texts from both testaments. He meticulously examines the foundational Hebrew confession known as the Shema, Matthew's great commission, the divine relations in the Gospel of John, Paul's Corinthian benediction, the opening hymn of Ephesians, and the throne room vision of the Apocalypse. Also considered are the relationships of language to revelation and history to metaphysics, along with recent appeals to recover patristic exegesis and the Christian imagination. He also challenges the reader to discern the implications of the Trinity for personal salvation as well as corporate worship.

God the Trinity: Biblical Portraits

B&H Academic

Special Revelation and Scripture (Theology for the People of God)

Dockery, David S.

“Who the Holy Spirit is determines what the Holy Spirit does. Who is the Holy Spirit? aims to help people see who the Holy Spirit is through Scripture’s description of him, offering biblical insights into the identity of the third person of the Trinity. With consideration for the Spirit’s identity derived from both Old and New Testament accounts, author Malcolm B. Yarnell focuses on identifying characteristics of the person of the Holy Spirit himself, rather than discussing the work of the Spirit solely in the context of salvation and sanctification, or external signs and wonders.”

Who Is the Holy Spirit?: Biblical Insights into His Divine Person (Hobbs College Library)

The heart of Christianity is trinitarian. The subject matter of Trinitarian Theology casts a long shadow over our faith. The relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit is central to the salvation story. The Trinity is central to Christianity, for the vibrancy of our churches, and for the clarity of our witness in the world. In Trinitarian Theology, Bruce Ware, Malcon B. Yarnell III, Matthew Y. Emerson, and Luke Stamps discuss issues such as the eternal functional subordination of the Son, the nature of the God-human relationship, and theological methods for forming the doctrine of the Trinity. This is a discussion of great importance, offered by scholars who represent varying views held by today’s Southern Baptist scholars.

Trinitarian Theology: Theological Models and Doctrinal Application

Emerson, Matthew Y.

Ware, Bruce

Stamps, Luke

B&H Publishing Group

John Locke's 'Letters of Gold': Universal Priesthood and the English Dissenting Theologians, 1688-1789 (Centre for Baptist Studies in Oxford)

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Independently published

The studies in this book set out a bold thesis: that there is a distinct movement of thought within the period of the Protestant Reformation in Europe that may be called ‘Covenant Ecclesiology’. The proposal was made during 2017, a year that was named as ‘Reformation 500’, marking half a millennium since Martin Luther issued his 95 theses. The year hosted many reflections on the Reformation from three of its ‘children’ – Lutheran, Reformed and Anglican. This collection of studies, originally papers given at a conference at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, identifies a fourth child of the Reformation, whom other siblings have sometimes regarded as a ‘wild child’. It is, however, less a single church than a diverse movement, born in the Reformation and its immediate aftermath in the form first of Continental Anabaptists, and then of English Separatists from the new Church of England. By the early years of the seventeenth century many Separatists had morphed in England into General Baptists and Independents, later Congregationalists, and on the Continent Anabaptists had developed into a variety of groups, of whom Mennonites are best known today. It was characteristic of members of all these groups to pledge to ‘walk together’ under God in a covenant that was marked by two dimensions – a vertical vector of relation with God and a horizontal vector of relation with each other. While Anabaptists are sometimes named ‘the radical Reformation’, these studies propose that various radical offsprings of the Reformation are best characterized by what is common to them – an ecclesiology at whose centre is covenant, with Christ as the covenant-maker.

The Fourth Strand of the Reformation: The Covenant Ecclesiology of Anabaptists, English Separatists and Early General Baptists (Centre for Baptist Studies in Oxford)

Education & Teaching

Fiddes, Paul S.

Brackney, William H.

Schools & Teaching

Centre for Baptist History and Heritage

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