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1.i THE HISTORY OF BRITISHAPOCALYPTICTHOUGHT The study of early modern Britain between the Reformation of the 1530s and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms of the 1640s has undergone a series of historiographical revisions. The dramatic events during that cent
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HEAVEN UPON EARTH Joseph Mede (1586-1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism
JEFFREY K. JUE
Heaven Upon Earth
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Heaven Upon Earth Joseph Mede (1586--1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism By
Jeffrey K. Jue
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Heaven Upon Earth Joseph Mede (1586--1638) and the Legacy of Millenarianism
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Jeffrey K. Jue Westminster Theological Seminary, U.S.A.
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Contents
Abbreviations Acknowledgements
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1. Introduction
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i. The History of British Apocalyptic Thought ii. Joseph Mede and English Millenarianism iii. Leading Questions 2. Biography
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i. Joseph Mede: A Biography ii. Early Years (1586-1602) iii. University Years (1602-1610) iv. Fellow at Christ’s College (1610-1638) v. The Scholar vi. Correspondence vii. Conclusion
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PART ONE: JOSEPH MEDE IN CONTEXT 3. Crypto-Papists, Anti-Calvinists and the Antichrist
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i. Millenarianism and the English Revolution ii. Crypto-Papists iii. Anti-Calvinists iv. Antichrist v. Conclusion
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4. Joseph Mede and the Cambridge Platonists
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i. Mede and the Cambridge Platonists ii. Co-Residents in Cambridge
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Contents iii. The Platonic Mede? iv. Theological Connections: Anti-Calvinists v. Theological Connections: The Doctrine of Justification vi. Theological Connections: Theologia Naturalis vii. Conclusion
5. Protestant Irenicism and the Millennium: Mede and the Hartlib Circle i. Protestant Irenicism and the Millennium ii. Dury, Hartlib and the Church of England iii. The Leipzig Colloquy: The Standard for Irenicism iv Dury, Hartlib and Mede on Protestant Unification v. Irenicism and Millenarianism vi. Conclusion
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PART TWO: THE ROOTS OF MEDE’S APOCALYPTIC THOUG
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