Seeing the World Through Ramist Eyes: The Richardsonian Ramist of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Tipson, Baird
- Source
- Seventeenth Century. Sep2013, Vol. 28 Issue 3, p275-292. 18p.
- Subject
- *17TH century theology
*BIBLICAL criticism
*NEW Englanders
*GOD
*17TH century doctrinal theology
*AUTHORITY in Christianity
*SEVENTEENTH century
*HISTORY
HISTORY of doctrines
- Language
- ISSN
- 0268-117X
Using as examples the writings of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone, founding ministers of the First Church of Hartford, Connecticut, this article shows how influential thinkers in early seventeenth-century England and New England saw the world around them through the filters of the Ramist philosophy of Alexander Richardson. It argues that Richardsonian Ramism produced theology and preaching that was less "biblical" and more "Calvinist" than has been conventionally thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]