Posts Tagged Mosheim

Some thoughts on Carson’s, Conant’s, Gale’s, Philpot’s and the Paulicans’ contradictory views on Baptism

… John T. Christian, though admitting that the Paulicians were Adoptionists, argues that Mosheim shows that they rejected infant baptism. Adoptionists are those who believe that Christ was originally only a man who, after being tested by God successfully was accepted into the Godhead. Having thus ‘proved’ that the Paulicians did not baptise children without consulting original documents, Christian further speculates that they obviously immersed three times because they came from …

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Review of Amyraut Affirmed

… that God’s will is meant to be thwarted. However, Clifford cannot be blind to the fact, which Mosheim stresses, that Amyraldianism quickly brought Geneva spiritually and theologically to its knees after Calvin’s death.

     Clifford rejects those who refuse to kiss his Blarney stone as Anti-Scriptural, Pro-Westminster Confession Men. Yet Clifford himself has no Scriptural exegesis to offer except as dubious non-contextual, peripheral, support for his most subjective interpretation …

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