Revisiting Martin Luther’s Philosophy
Cooper's defense of the scholastic method argues for seeing continuity, rather than disjuncture, between Luther and his successors.
Cooper's defense of the scholastic method argues for seeing continuity, rather than disjuncture, between Luther and his successors.
After the conclusion of the English Civil War, the tensions between two Puritan emphases began to become apparent: the ideal of the “godly magistracy,” which assumed general uniformity in religious practice, and the tendency towards a “gathered church,” which had encouraged the gathering of the “godly” in separate assemblies.
