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3 unusual facts about Marrow Controversy


James Hog

James Hog (1658?–1734) was a Scottish minister at Carnock, known for his role in the Marrow Controversy within the Church of Scotland.

Marrow

The Marrow Controversy, occasioned by the republication of The Marrow of Modern Divinity in 1718

Marrow Controversy

The work consists of religious dialogues which discuss the doctrine of the atonement and aim to guide the reader safely between Antinomianism and Neonomianism.


James Hervey

Besides carrying into England the theological disputes to which the Marrow of Modern Divinity had given rise in Scotland (the Marrow Controversy), it also led to what is known as the Sandemanian controversy as to the nature of saving faith.


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