Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-25-2019
Journal Title
Perichoresis
Volume
17
Issue
2
First Page
75
Last Page
93
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2019-0018
Abstract
Amidst the politically-charged climate of seventeenth-century England, a small, but influential makeshift group of Baptist divines developed an eschatological system that both encouraged their congregations to greater holiness and threatened the very existence of the proto-denomination. Even as most of the nascent group of dissenting congregations known as Baptists sought acceptance by the more mainstream dissent, those divines who accepted this particular form of millenarianism garnered unwanted attention from the authorities as they pressed remarkably close to the line of radical dissidence. Three of those Baptist divines—Vavasor Powell, Hanserd Knollys, and Benjamin Keach—provide helpful insights both into the range of millenarianism adopted by this group of Baptists and into the legitimacy of the charges of radicalism. This article examines the published works of these three ministers, comparing their visions for the eschatological future and analyzing the charges of radicalism placed against them by their contemporaries.
Keywords
Deification, English Baptists, Millenarianism, Powell, Knollys, Keach
Recommended Citation
Arnold, Jonathan W., "Radical, Baptist Eschatology: The Eschatological Vision of Vavasor Powell, Hanserd Knollys, and Benjamin Keach" (2019). Biblical and Theological Studies Faculty Publications. 560.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/biblical_and_ministry_studies_publications/560
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