I am not sure that it right to draw a distinction between the King and the Church. The King was the head of the church, and Parliament was its governing body. The delegation was not sent without the full participation of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

This was an English delegation, not a British one.

Owen Thomas, tr John Aaron, The Atonement Controversy in Welsh Theological Literature and Debate, 1701-1841 (Edinburgh, 2002).

The book chronicles about as many different ‘calvinistic’ versions of the extent of the Atonement as one could imagine. Interestingly enough, the debate then, like now, lead to huge fissures in the Denominational communities in which they took place.

Bret

Thanks for the response.

I probably did interchange the terms English and British, however, it is the case that there was a Scot among them, Balancquall, and Davenant and Ward were friendly with Ussher, who of course was in Ireland. I apologize if I made the mistake elsewhere, but the fellas that King James sent to Dort were indeed British. I guess it is also important to note that they were delegates of the King and not the Church (specifically, that is. Hard to separate the two at that time).

As for the use of “Calvinist,” that’s exactly what I want to challenge. Wasn’t Calvin “Reformed and Catholic”? What about Zanchius? Ursinus?

I don’t agree with limiting the use of “Calvinist” to hard-line Puritans, and even if you associate it with Dort, I attempted to broaden our understanding of that out in the previous post in these installments.

Davenant was an Anglican. He was the Bishop of Salisbury at the end of his life. I’m pretty sure he wore a white robe.

But his presentation in Dissertation on the Death of Christ is that he falls in line with the Calvinistic branch of the Reformation, which is Catholic.

To my ears if the delegation was British they represented all four peoples, not just England, which seems to have been the case.

Second, the English Reformation was not Calvinistic, but Reformed and Catholic. Calvinism is associated with the Presbyterian Churches. Having an English Reformed heritage I never call myself a Calvinist, just Reformed.

Sorry about that Pete. I must have missed in when I transferred it over here. I had some trouble initially, crashing the BH site and all…

It should be better now.

If you indented the quotes as blockquotes, it would make following the argument of the article a lot easier.

Thanks.
Pete

Our interpretations of how Davenant’s theology should be classified are quite opposite, so hopefully what I’ve written here will be of help.

The English Delegation to the Synod of Dordt

The Synod of Dordt

The Pastoral Character of the Canons of Dordt

Hope they are of some interest to you.