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shown as applied to particular situations. It was taken up by 17th century writers, both Catholic and Protestant. When Reformed theologians adopted casuistry, it was in a distinctive style: concise and biblical, and largely denying the separation of
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is considered foundational for the genre. So-called "case divinity" has been described as fundamental to Puritan culture. The underlying theological trend is said to be visible in
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from theology. In the early 17th century the term "practical theology" was coming in, to cover "cases of conscience", though its scope could be wider than that.
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could produce dilemmas on a spiritual level, and Puritan casuistry in part was a response to the need to address these issues as practical problems. Perkins,
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Church and School in Early Modern Protestantism: Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition
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Otherwise, the content of "Puritan casuistry" is still somewhat contested by scholars, because the element of
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The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
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Persecution, Plague, and Fire: Fugitive Histories of the Stage in Early Modern England
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author that "casuistry" here is a misnomer, and "practical divinity" more accurate.
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Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation
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were noted as authors who wrote in this area. From Ames, it was considered that
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is apparently lower than would be expected, if it were simply the casuistry of
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can be closer to the mark, than moral literature. It has been argued by a
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is therefore implied, and so of devotional life. In terms of genre,
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is a genre of British religious literature, in the general area of
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Jordan J. Ballor; David Sytsma; Jason Zuidema (10 October 2013).
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Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England
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can almost never know itself. More accurately, the issue is
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The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences, and the Arts, 1540-1773
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The medieval tradition in casuistry went under the name
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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy
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Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America. 1 (2006)
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Index

moral theology
William Perkins
George Gifford
Reformed theology
salvation
Richard Greenham
William Ames
Joseph Alleine
reprobation
election
casuistry
Puritanism
Protestant
conscience
confession
devotional literature
Jesuit
moral principles
moral philosophy
Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America. 1 (2006)
ISBN
978-1-57607-678-1
The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
ISBN
978-0-8078-2850-2
Shapers of English Calvinism, 1660-1714: Variety, Persistence, and Transformation
ISBN
978-0-19-974483-1
Doctrine and Difference: Essays in the Literature of New England
ISBN

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