Francis Cheynell

Sergiej S. Slavinski, Ph.D. (2022, University of Edinburgh), has published articles on Reformed scholasticism and theology, with an emphasis on early modern Trinitarianism.

Acknowledgements


1 Introduction

 1 Francis Cheynell and Mid-Seventeenth-Century English Trinitarian Controversies


 2 Puritan Piety


 3 Method, Thesis, and Structure




2 Cheynell’s Intellectual Biography and the English Crisis of Mid-Seventeenth-Century Reformed Trinitarianism

 1 Introduction


 2 Cheynell’s Early and Pre-civil War Life


 3 The ‘Prevailing Faction’ of Laudianism


 4 The Rise of Socinianism


 5 The ‘Arch-Visitor’ and Reformer


 6 The Trinity: ‘Not Problematical, but Fundamental’


 7 Conclusion




3 Infinite Simplicity

 1 Introduction


 2 Divine Incomprehensibility: Chastening Human Reason


 3 Divine Necessity: ‘I Am That I Am’


 4 How to Think and Speak about God Cautiously


 5 Divine Simplicity and the Divine Attributes: What Kind of Distinction?


 6 Conclusion




4 The Written Trinity

 1 Introduction


 2 The Trinity: The Authority of Tradition?


 3 Trinitarian Exegesis Contra Radical Exegesis


 4 The Biblical Portraiture of the ‘Single and Eternal Godhead’


 5 Conclusion




5 Unity in Trinunity: The Metaphysics of ‘Nature’ and ‘Person’

 1 Introduction


 2 Cheynell’s Reformed Scholastic Definition of Person


 3 The ‘Great Masters of Language’ and Boethian Anti-Trinitarianism


 4 The Nature-Person Distinction and the Transcendent Affections of Ens Simpliciter


 5 Conclusion




6 Trinunity in Unity: The Metaphysics of Personal Distinction

 1 Introduction


 2 Cheynell’s Reformed Inheritance of Medieval Trinitarianism


 3 Divine Aseity and Essential Communication


 4 ‘Natural’ Communication in the Unity of the Divine Essence


 5 The First Person A Se


 6 Conclusion




7 The Mystery of Godliness: ‘Divine’ and ‘Natural’ Worship

 1 Introduction


 2 Intellectual and Affectionate Trinitarian Theology


 3 Christ’s Divine Nature: The Object of British and Continental Reformed Worship


 4 British and Continental Kingdom Christology


 5 Apocalyptic Communion with the Trinity


 6 Conclusion




8 Conclusion


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