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Author Gootjes, Albert

Title Claude Pajon (1626-1685) and the Academy of Saumur : the first controversy over grace / by Albert Gootjes
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Series Brill's series in church history ; volume 64
Brill's series in church history ; volume 64.
Contents 880-01 Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One Introduction; A. The First Pajonist Controversy; B. The History of Pajon Scholarship; 1. The Problem of Sources; 2. From Cameron, through Amyraut, to Pajon; 3. An Unfinished Project; 4. The Question of Descartes; 5. The Academy of Saumur; C. The Current Proposal: Methodology and Outline; Chapter Two The Saumur Triumvirate: Pajon as Student at the Academy; A. Between the Edict of Nantes and Its Revocation; B. Philosophy: Saumur and Aristotle; C. Theology: The Heritage of John Cameron; 1. John Cameron: Life and Career
880-01/(S 2. 'La grâce universelle'3. The Doctrine of Conversion; D. Summary; Chapter Three The Influence of Paul Testard: Education Extra Muros Academiae; A. Pajon's Departure From the Academy; B. Testard on the Work of the Holy Spirit in Conversion; 1. Ειῤηνικον́ seu synopsis doctrinae de natura et gratia (1633); 2. 'Radical' Cameronism; C. Echoes of a 'Pre-Pajonist' Controversy; 1. Testard at the Synod of Alençon (1637); 2. The Years After 1637-Testard and Rivet; 3. From Testard to Pajon: The Cameronians Divide; D. Summary; Chapter Four Origins and Arguments: Pastor at Marchenoir
A. The Manuscripts of the 1660sB. Criticism of Amyraut; C. Immediate Grace Not in Scripture; D. The Nature of Human Inability; 1. As Argument Against Immediate Grace; 2. Locating Inability: Ideas and Thoughts; E. The Power of the Gospel Truth; 1. As Argument Against Immediate Grace; 2. Spirit and Word: Common Notions, Certainty, and Circumstances; 3. Cartesian Influence?; 3. Cartesian Influence?; F. Immediate Grace and the Doctrine of Concursus; G. Pajon and Reformed Orthodoxy; H. Summary; Chapter Five The Renaissance of the Academy: The Battle for Cameron's Legacy
A. The Provincial Synod of Anjou (1665)1. The Question of Succession; 2. Pajon's Sermon-Cause of Controversy?; 3. Objection ... Overruled-The First Signs of Trouble; B. Between Marchenoir and Saumur: Pajon's Private Polemics; 1. From De la Fons to Guyraut; 2. The Shaping of a Debate; C. The Battle over Cameron's Intellectual Legacy; 1. Cameron on the 'Ethical' Work of the Spirit; 2. The Public and the Private Cameron?; 3. From Cameron to Pajon; D. Summary; Chapter Six From Acquittal to Condemnation? Crisis at the Academy; A. Saumur under Siege
1. Prelude: The Provincial Synod of Anjou (Saint-Aignan, 1666)2. Letters from Bretagne, Loudun, and Preuilly; 3. The Meeting of 8 November 1666: Support from the Academy; B. Interlude: November 1666-July 1667; 1. Pajon's Attempt at Conciliation; 2. Failure; C. Acquitted by Synod; 1. A Delegation from Poitou; 2. The Provincial Synod of Anjou (Preuilly-sur-Claise, 1667); D. Peace for the Academy: Pajon's Departure from Saumur; 1. A Delegation from Orléans; 2. The End of the First Pajonist Controversies?; E. Summary; Chapter Seven A Decade of Change: From Saumur to Orléans
Summary This is the first published monograph on the Saumur theologian Claude Pajon. Drawing on manuscript sources, it examines Pajon's thought and its origins, and traces the nature and course of the first of two controversies over his theology (1665-1667)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pajon, Claude, 1626-1685.
SUBJECT Pajon, Claude, 1626-1685 fast
Subject Church history -- 17th century.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Church history
SUBJECT Saumur (France) -- Church history
Subject France -- Saumur
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004257641
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9781299975880