Why did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed community
In 1653 Henry Dunster, Harvard's first President, refused to baptise his fourth child, initiating a controversy that would end in his resignation from the Harvard Presidency in October 1654. This article offers an explanation for Dunster's rejection of infant baptism by re-examining the ca...
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| description | In 1653 Henry Dunster, Harvard's first President, refused to baptise his fourth child, initiating a controversy that would end in his resignation from the Harvard Presidency in October 1654. This article offers an explanation for Dunster's rejection of infant baptism by re-examining the causes behind the spread of antipaedobaptism across 1640s England and New England, attributing especial significance to the Anglophone reception of continental European covenant theology. Supporting this account, it presents an annotated edition of a previously unknown item in Dunster's correspondence, a letter sent to him by a concerned onlooker just months after his heterodoxy became public. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:99990966-1e8d-4868-aad9-024e32b3b24f2022-03-27T00:15:23ZWhy did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed communityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:99990966-1e8d-4868-aad9-024e32b3b24fEnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2021Macfarlane, KIn 1653 Henry Dunster, Harvard's first President, refused to baptise his fourth child, initiating a controversy that would end in his resignation from the Harvard Presidency in October 1654. This article offers an explanation for Dunster's rejection of infant baptism by re-examining the causes behind the spread of antipaedobaptism across 1640s England and New England, attributing especial significance to the Anglophone reception of continental European covenant theology. Supporting this account, it presents an annotated edition of a previously unknown item in Dunster's correspondence, a letter sent to him by a concerned onlooker just months after his heterodoxy became public. |
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| title | Why did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed community |
| title_full | Why did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed community |
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| title_short | Why did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed community |
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