Precisianist

Pre`ci´sian`ist


n. 1. A precisian.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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(85) On Byfield's systematic pietist disciplinarianism, see Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), pp.
William Thomas's notebook: a window on seventeenth-century religion and politics
Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion & Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 110-17.
Some chapters touching the Law of Nature
(12.) Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash to 1638 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 105-80.
"Most ignorant of what he's most assured": the hermeneutics of predestination in Measure for Measure
145-83; Charles Lloyd Cohen, God's Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience (New York, 1986); Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2004), especially Ch.
The early defence of 'Lambeth Calvinism': theological and pastoral responses in a Lincolnshire Parish
Daniels, The Connecticut Town: Growth and Development, 1635-1790 (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1979), 65; Theodore Dwight Bozeman, The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 239-40; Kai T.
Drunkards, fornicators, and a great hen squabble: censure practices and the gendering of Puritanism
Theodore Dwight Bozeman, in The Precisianist Strain, and David R.
The Precisianist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Theodore Dwight Bozeman offers a powerful and erudite alternative, but the law-wrought rigors of the "precisianist strain" are overdrawn, rendering Bozeman's precisianists too forgetful of Christ and his grace.
Redeeming free grace: Thomas Hooker and the contested language of salvation
The godly's pastoral impulse often gets lost in the attention to their "precisianist" tendencies, but they did not indulge in "temporal improvisation" simply to frighten or intimidate.
"Sinne unfoulded": time, election, and disbelief among the godly in late sixteenth--and early seventeenth-century England
Theodore Dwight Bozeman positions Crisp among a group of "disillusioned veterans of godly religion," depicting a somewhat equivocal antinomian who nevertheless participated in the "antinomian backlash" against "precisianist" austerity.
The covenantal quietism of Tobias Crisp (1)

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