The last
several decades have witnessed important research into post-Reformation
Reformed thought (c 1560 - 1775). In earlier scholarship, it was common to view
‘orthodoxy'—the name commonly applied to Protestant theology during this
period—as dry, sterile, speculative, and rationalistic, and to represent it as
significantly discontinuous with the more humanistic, practical, and biblical thought
of the early reformers. Recent scholars have challenged such views.Despite the emphasis upon reformed orthodoxy as an international
phenomenon and recognition that Scottish thinkers participated in the same,
Scottish theologians have figured minimally in studies of reformed orthodoxy thus
far. And, conversely, studies of Scottish theology and/or theologians during
the orthodox period largely overlooked the
significant reassessments made of post-Reformation Reformed thought more
broadly in recent years. This collection of essays, then, is
draws attention to the Scottish contribution to international Reformed thought and examines Scottish thinkers/theologians
through a lens provided by significant recent reassessments made of reformed
orthodoxy.
