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Article: From Martin Bucer to Richard Baxter: "discipline" and reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2001
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Already famous for his best-selling books on Christian devotion and increasingly infamous for his attempts at a theological synthesis of Calvinist and Arminian perspectives on salvation--which (no surprise) pleased hardly anyone--Richard Baxter (1615-91) nearly succeeded in redefining English pastoral practice before the Restoration brought his experiment in pastor-led, parish-based reformation to a frustrating end. At the core of his efforts to bring reformation to Kidderminster lay his efforts to establish a parish-based system of church discipline that would preserve the integrity of the sacraments and thus rob separatists of one of their primary excuses for abandoning ...
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