A new version of the Scots Confession, 1560

Ian Hazlett’s chief aim in producing this new version of one of the key Reformation documents is to make the Scots Confession accessible to a new generation of readers. By carefully updating its language he has allowed the authentic voice of the Scots Reformers to come through to us loud and clear. He has also provided an extremely valuable introduction which will guide readers in exploring the Confession’s theological context more extensively.Publisher PD

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Religion and politics in William Steel Dickson DD (1744‒1824): Ulster-Scot Irishman and his modernizing thought-world

This essay presents the lineaments and origins of the core thinking of Steel Dickson, a typically controversial representative of the progressive eighteenth-century intelligentsia in the north of Ireland who were Presbyterian ministers and inclined to radicalising reform of politics and religion as well as, more tentatively, to the reformatting of fundamental theology. There will be reference to short studies and general interpretations of Dickson and, more particularly, some analysis of his publications including religio-political addresses and church sermons. Discussed will be the context of his association with the Society of United Irishmen and its evolving revolutionary path, as well as his links to other reform thinkers, politicians and churchmen in Ulster. The study argues that Steel Dickson's varied political involvement flowed consciously from his ethical and religious convictions. Further, that he embodied (with qualification) the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment and ‘Moderate’ Presbyterianism in Ireland – but along with strong appeal to biblical testimony and norms. Finally, it demonstrates with illustrations that the decisive shaping and reconstructing of the contours of Dickson's mind occurred during his studies at Glasgow University in its intellectual heyday

Martin Bucer, der dritte deutsche Reformator. Zum Ertrag der Edition der Deutschen Schriften Martin Bucers

Martin Bucer, der dritte deutsche Reformator. Zum Ertrag der Edition der Deutschen Schriften Martin Bucers, edited by Christoph Strohm and Thomas Wilhelmi, Akademie-Konferenzen, 26, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2016, 106 pp., 3 ill., €28 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-8253-6723-7. Also available as E-book, ISBN 978-3-8253-7694-

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Cold War Theology: A controversial religious image of King James VI & I in England and on the Continent in 1603

A former student of James Cameron’s, Ian Hazlett contributes a paper very much in the spirit of his teacher. It considers the afterlife of the King’s (or Negative) Confession, commissioned by James VI of Scotland in 1581 as a clear statement of his Calvinist credentials. By the time he gained the crown of England in 1603 however, his evolving religious views meant it had become a document he sought to distance himself from. Both Protestant and Catholic propagandists and publishers, keen to give a particular picture of the theological sympathies of the new English king, subsequently produced a surprisingly varied selection of versions of the Confession. These sources and what they can tell us about the theology and politics of the day are considered here for the first time in a scholarly study

Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval, by Heinz Schilling, translated by Rona Johnston, New York, Oxford University Press, 2017

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