Philology and Theology in Calvinist Orthodoxy: Johannes Cocceius’ Exegetical, Polemical and Systematic Doctrine of the Sabbath.

The object of the thesis is to examine the interplay of philology and theology in Cocceius' doctrine of the Sabbath which sparked off major questions and dissensions at the time. This aspect of Cocceius' work has so far remained unexamined and its exact position within "Cocceianism" will be determined, it is hoped, % by the findings of the thesis,.