Calvinismo italiano e polemica teologica inglese. La ricezione di Girolamo Zanchi nell'opera di A. Montague Toplady
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Keywords
- In 1769 the Anglican priest Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-78) published an English translation of a minor work by the Italian reformed theologian Girolamo Zanchi (1516-90)
- titled The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination. Topladyâ€
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- s translation was in fact part of a larger polemical campaign against the arminian party in the Church of England
- whose major exponent was John Wesley (1703-91). The essay reconstructs both the circumstances that led to the publication of Topladyâ€
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- s translation and the reactions that ensued
- thus shedding light on an important chapter in the history of the reception of reformed continental theology in England
