Reformed Historical Theology

Casey B. Carmichael

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783525552780
• eBook ISBN: 9783647552781
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

Carmichael argues that Johannes Cocceius's theology of the Sabbath serves as a window through which one can view more clearly his federal theology or covenant theology. Covenant theology was the most distinctive feature of his theology. Moreover, Cocceius spent a notable portion of his life engaging in the Leiden Sabbath Controversies from 1655 to 1659, which played a key role in the split of the Reformed Dutch Republic into two socio-political blocs—Cocceians and Voetians. So far scholars have tended to overlook this critical phase in Cocceius's theological development. Carmichael sheds light on it by looking at the theological texts that Cocceius wrote that absorbed his attention during this significant period. Casey Carmichael examines first the evolution of the problem of the Sabbath in Cocceius's theological tradition—Reformed Orthodoxy—in Chapters 2–4 and second the development of Cocceius's doctrine of the Sabbath, structured around the Leiden Sabbath Controversies, in Chapters 5–8.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction
• Part One: The Sabbath in Reformed Orthodoxy
• 2. The Early Reformed Sabbath
• 3. The English Puritan Sabbath
• 4. The Dutch Reformed Sabbath
• Part Two: Cocceius's Theology of the Sabbath
• 5. The Early Cocceius on the Sabbath Among His Interlocutors
• 6. Cocceius's Theology of the Sabbath in Development: Stage 1: Exegesis of Hebrews 4:1–13
• 7. Cocceius's Theology of the Sabbath in Development: Stage 2: The Polemical Treatises
• 8. Cocceius's Developed Theology of the Sabbath: Covenant Theology and Systematic Theology
• 9. Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Scripture Index
• Name Index
• Subject Index