TY - MANSCPT AU - Sell,Alan P.F. TI - Confessing the faith yesterday and today: essays reformed, dissenting, and catholic SN - 1620325942 (pbk) AV - BT990 .S49 2013 PY - 2013///] CY - Eugene, Oregon PB - Pickwick Publications KW - Creeds KW - Faith KW - Religious tolerance KW - Christian union KW - Reformed Church KW - Dissenters, Religious N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part I. Confessing the faith in context --; ch. 1. Confessing the faith and confessions of faith --; ch. 2. Varieties of English Separatist and dissenting writings, 1558-1689 --; ch. 3. Separatists and Dissenters amidst the arguments for and against toleration : some soundings, 1550-1689 --; ch. 4. Christianity, secularism, and toleration: liberal values and illiberal attitudes --; ch. 5. The use, abuse, and relevance of religion : some reflections on Professor Abraham van de Beek's proposal --; ch. 6. Confessing the faith in the intellectual context --; Part II. Confessing the faith ecclesially and hopefully --; ch. 7. Calvin's challenges to the twenty-first-century church : reflections on the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth --; ch. 8. Rectifying Calvin's ecclesiology : the doctrinal and ecumenical importance of Separatist-congregational catholicity --; ch. 9. Receiving from other Christian communions and overcoming the hindrances thereto : some reformed reflections --; ch. 10. Eschatology : historical fluctuations and perennial practical importance --; ch. 11. Confessing the faith in systematic theology? The locus and authority of revelation vis v̉is systematic method : an epilogue cheerful in style, serious in intent ER -