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Mystery unveiled. The crisis of the Trinity in early modern England . By Paul C. H. Lim . (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology.) Pp. xvii + 488 incl. 7 ills. Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2012. £45. 978 0 19 533946 8
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Paul Lim concludes this densely researched and thoughtful exploration of Trinitarian debates in seventeenth-century England with the words of Hilary of Poitiers, rendered by Andrew Marvell in a controversial work of 1680: 'We are now all of us torn in pieces.' This devastating verdict on the state of early modern theology (and especially the proliferation of creeds, councils and persecutions, analogous to Hilary's own time) echoes the dismay of contemporaries, beholding in Western Christianity a broken body. Lim's...