Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
How-To Books, Protestant Kinetics, and the Art of Theology. |
| Authors: |
Ferrell, Lori Anne1 |
| Source: |
Huntington Library Quarterly. 2008, Vol. 71 Issue 4, p591-606. 16p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Religious education, *Christian educators, *Christian education textbooks, Calvinism, Predestination, Doctrinal theology |
| Geographic Terms: |
England |
| Reviews & Products: |
Golden Chaine: Or, the Description of Theology, Containing the Order of the Causes of Salvation & Damnation, According to God's Word, A (Book) |
| People: |
Perkins, William, 1558-1602 |
| Abstract: |
The article focuses on the pedagogical techniques associated with the teaching of the Calvinist doctrine of predestination through how-to books in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in England. It states that the period 1560 to 1640, which was the golden age of English Calvinism, witnessed the development of the relationship between vernacular how-to books and an emergent class of learners. It focuses on the Calvinist teaching texts of the book "A Golden Chaine: Or, the Description of Theology, containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to God's Word," by William Perkins, and evaluates its theologically kinetic qualities. It describes how a mutually reinforcing culture could form between attractive books, specialized instructors and aspiring learners. |
| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
