Teaching Predestination: Elnathan Parr and Pastoral Ministry in Early Stuart England (Reformed Historical-Theological Studies)

“David Kranendonk's study of the thought of Elnathan Parr identifies Parr's place in the English catechical tradition and provides a significant window into the interrelationship of theology and piety characteristic of seventeenth-centory Puritan thought. This is a useful and important study.”

“In this careful analysis of the Calvinist preaching and catechesis of Elnathan Parr, David Kranendonk reveals the pastoral significance of the teaching of predestination. He convincingly explains how a forbidding doctrine seemingly based on cold logic could be on the ground’ of parish life a spiritually enriching source of comfort and joy. Kranendonk strengthens his argument by his impressive familiarity with Parr’s contemporaries in practical theology and by his emphasis on the exegetical rather than speculative nature of much Reformed piety and theology in early Stuart England.”