Post-Reformation · 1627

The Marrow of Sacred Divinity

William Ames (1576-1633)

A compressed but comprehensive system of Reformed theology built on the conviction that divinity is the doctrine of living to God. Ames covers the full range of Christian teaching in paired books: the first on faith and what is to be believed about God, creation, sin, and redemption; the second on observance and what is to be done in response. Influential far beyond Ames's own generation, it shaped Puritan and Reformed thought on both sides of the Atlantic and served as the standard theological text at Harvard for much of the seventeenth century.

10 hrs total · 63 chapters