Early Reformation Covenant Theology

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Robert Wainwright demonstrates the importance of covenant theology in the early years of the Reformation when Huldrych Zwingli Heinrich Bullinger and John Calvin recast late medieval conceptions of the divine pact within radical new parameters of grace alone and Scripture alone. Their ideas spread surprisingly quickly into English discourse explaining the early emergence of Reformed theology under Henry VIII. Wainwright scrutinizes the covenant thought of William Tyndale Miles Coverdale John Hooper and John Bradford questions essentially Lutheran characterizations of Henrician evangelicalism and portrays early Reformation covenant theology as distinct from proto-Puritanism.</span></p><h3><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Endorsements</span></h3><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The clarity of its analysis and the richness of its evidence make Robert Wainwright's book an excellent guide to the early English Reformers encounter with the theology of Zurich and Basel Strasbourg and Geneva.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Steven Gunn </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Professor of Early Modern History Merton College University of Oxford</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A path-breaking study of covenant theology in early Tudor England.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Felicity M. Heal </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>FBA Emeritus Fellow and Lecturer in History Jesus College University of Oxford</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A model for how the history of theology and the history of religious movements can be fruitfully integrated.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Peter Marshall </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>FBA Department of History University of Warwick</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A timely scholarly and persuasive reassertion of the Reformed character of the English Reformation.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Stephen Hampton </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Dean and Senior Tutor Peterhouse University of Cambridge</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Wainwright's careful reading of the writings of the Continental Reformers . . . alongside those of the English Reformers . . . shows similarities and lines of influence in a way that has not been done before.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Charlotte Methuen </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Professor of Ecclesiastical History University of Glasgow</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Rides the crest of a wave of an innovative reinterpretation of the English Reformation. More than likely to set the cat among the pigeons.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-Torrance Kirby </strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>FRHistS Professor of Ecclesiastical History McGill University</span></p>