La cuestión soteriológica en «A Gagg for the New Gospell», de Richard Montagu y su contexto en el panorama del pensamiento político en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII

The primary aim of this paper is to provide an orderly review of the English writer and divine Richard Montagu’s thinking on the doctrine of salvation in his first major work, A Gagg for the New Gospell. The secondary aim is to con-textualise this doctrine in the social and political landscape of England in the first half of the seventeenth century, paying particular attention to the tensions between monarchy and Parliament as reflected in the conflict between Arminians and Pu-ritans in England. To this end, the paper will be divided into three parts. In the first we will present some fundamental premises to contextualise Montagu’s thought, in the second we will offer a brief outline of the divine’s life and work, and in the third we will try to synthetically expose the most relevant questions about redemption, human freedom and the role of sanctifying grace in the work. In conclusion we will summarise the main points of Montagu’s doctrine on the question for a uture work in which we will continue to develop this analysis in the rest of his work