As Patterson points out in the fifth chapter, "Biblical Preaching and English Prose," Perkins's role "as a significant theorist of the sermon and an influential example to preachers" had a significant impact on the use of English in both speaking and writing, and set in motion literary, ...
In this project both the historiographical and methodological issues for the study of Protestant scholasticism and its intellectual context will be continued. This research project is focused on the following topics: Middle Ages, Reformation and Orthodoxy, with emphasis on continuities and discontinuities....