Sweet Communion: Trajectories of Spirituality from the Middle Ages through the Further Reformation - Softcover

Arie De Reuver

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ISBN 10: 1601785615 ISBN 13: 9781601785619

Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books, 2017

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Sweet Communion introduces scholars and interested Reformed readers to the spirituality practiced during the Further Reformation, a seventeenth-century movement that strove for a contemporary application of the sixteenth-century Reformation. The book is organized around leading figures of the era, including Willem Teellinck, Theodorus à Brakel, Guiljelmus Saldenus, Wilhelmus à Brakel, and Herman Witsius. Sweet Communion examines the quality, form, and roots of this period s spirituality. De Reuver determines that...

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"Interest in Reformed spirituality has been growing in recent years, particularly with reference to the English Puritans. In this volume Professor de Reuver opens up the world of the Dutch Nadere Reformatie, of such theological luminaries as Teelink and Witsius, for an English-speaking audience, thus offering some of the riches of this tradition to the Anglo-American world. Dr. de Reuver is well qualified to do this, having...

About the Author

Arie de Reuver (ThD, University of Utrecht) teaches systematic and historical theology at the University of Utrecht and is the author of numerous academic monographs. James A. De Jong (ThD, Free University of Amsterdam) is president emeritus of Calvin Theological Seminary.

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