Marrow Controversy

This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Part of a series on
The Marrow Controversy
Origin of the First Secession from the Kirk of Scotland
Background Auchterarder Creed Marrow of Modern Divinity Edward Fisher
Marrow Brethren Thomas Boston James Hog Ebenezer Erskine Robert Riccaltoun Ralph Erskine Associate Presbytery
Opponents Neonomians James Hadow General Assembly
Doctrines Republication of the Covenant of Works Assurance Free offer of the gospel Covenant theology Law and Gospel
Topics Antinomianism Legalism Sola fide Repentance
Reformed Christianity portal
v t e

The Marrow Controversy was a Scottish ecclesiastical dispute occasioned by the republication in 1718 of The Marrow of Modern Divinity (originally published in two parts in London in 1645 and 1649 by "E. F.", generally believed to be a pseudonym for Edward Fisher, a lay theologian of the seventeenth century).^[1] The work consists of religious dialogues which discuss the doctrine of the atonement and aim to guide the reader safely between Antinomianism and Neonomianism. The dispute involved two parties, being the Marrow Brethren and the General Assembly.^[2]