Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: One of the issues in dispute in England in the 1590s was the importance of Christian assurance. This issue figured prominently in the debates leading to the Lambeth Articles of 1595. Richard Hooker developed a position on assurance beginning from a conventional statement of assurance in the early Sermons Upon S. Judes Epistle and ending with significant reservations about assurance in the Learned Sermon on Certaintie and Pepertuitie of Faith in the Elect and the Dublin Fragments. His pastoral concern was expressed in the comfort to be derived from recognition that one’s faith was weak rather than from experienced assurance that one was elect. Hope for salvation is a good sign as is observation of the exercise of love for the neighbour.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: David Neelands
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3093100554