Why did Henry Dunster reject infant baptism? circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the seventeenth-century transatlantic reformed community

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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Príomhchruthaitheoir:	Macfarlane, K
Formáid:	Journal article
Teanga:	English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe:	Cambridge University Press 2021

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