Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church

Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church
Title Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church PDF eBook
Author Peter Lake
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 372
Release 2004-11-11
Genre History
ISBN 9780521611879

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An analysis of the careers and opinions of a series of divines who passed through the University of Cambridge between 1560 and 1600.

The Elizabethan Puritan Movement

The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Title The Elizabethan Puritan Movement PDF eBook
Author Patrick Collinson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 455
Release 2020-11-05
Genre History
ISBN 1000223450

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Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for ‘a further reformation’. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.

Piety and Politics

Piety and Politics
Title Piety and Politics PDF eBook
Author Mary Fulbrook
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 228
Release 1983-11-17
Genre History
ISBN 9780521276337

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This book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics in early modern Europe.

The Long Argument

The Long Argument
Title The Long Argument PDF eBook
Author Stephen Foster
Publisher UNC Press Books
Pages 416
Release 2012-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 0807838268

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In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who never decided whether they were the vanguard or the remnant. Indeed, in Foster's analysis, changes in New England Puritanism after the first decades of settlement did not indicate secularization and decline but instead were part of a pattern of change, conflict, and accomodation that had begun in England. He views the Puritans' own claims of declension as partisan propositions in an internal controversy as old as the Puritan movement itself. The result of these stresses and adaptations, he argues, was continued vitality in American Puritanism during the second half of the seventeenth century. Foster draws insights from a broad range of souces in England and America, including sermons, diaries, spiritual autobiographies, and colony, town, and court records. Moreover, his presentation of the history of the English and American Puritan movements in tandem brings out the fatal flaws of the former as well as the modest but essential strengths of the latter.

The Puritans

The Puritans
Title The Puritans PDF eBook
Author David D. Hall
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 526
Release 2021-04-06
Genre History
ISBN 0691203377

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"Shedding critical new light on the diverse forms of Puritan belief and practice in England, Scotland, and New England, Hall provides a multifaceted account of a cultural movement that judged the Protestant reforms of Elizabeth's reign to be unfinished"--Provided by publisher.

Anglicans and Puritans?

Anglicans and Puritans?
Title Anglicans and Puritans? PDF eBook
Author Peter Lake
Publisher Routledge
Pages 247
Release 2020-11-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 1000226425

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Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church. This book shed new light on the crucial disagreements between puritans and conformists and the importance of these divisions for political processes within both the church and wider society. The originality and complexity of Richard Hooker’s thought is discussed and the extent to which Hooker redefined the essence of English Protestantism. The book will be of interest to historians of the late 16th and 17th Centuries and to those interested in church history and the development of Protestantism.

Moderate Radical

Moderate Radical
Title Moderate Radical PDF eBook
Author Rosamund Oates
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 274
Release 2018-03-01
Genre History
ISBN 0192526839

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Moderate Radical explores an exciting period of English, and British, history: Elizabethan and Early Stuart religious politics. Tobie Matthew (c. 1544-1628) started Elizabeth's reign as a religious radical, yet ended up running the English Church during the tumultuous years leading up to the British Civil Wars. Moderate Radical provides a new perspective on this period, and an insight into the power of conforming puritanism as a political and cultural force. Matthew's vision of conformity and godly magistracy brought many puritans into the Church, but also furnished them with a justification for rebellion when the puritanism was seriously threatened. Through exciting new sources - Matthew's annotations of his extensive library and newly discovered sermons - Rosamund Oates explores the guiding principles of puritanism in the period and explains why the godly promoted the national church, even when it seemed corrupt. She demonstrates how Matthew protected puritans, but his protection meant that there was a rich seam of dissent at the heart of the Church that emerged when the godly found themselves under attack in the 1620s and 1630s. This is a story about accommodations, conformity and government, as well as a biography of a leading figure in the Church, who struggled to come to terms with his own son's Catholicism and the disappointments of his family. Moderate Radical makes an important contribution to the emerging field of sermon studies, exploring the rich cultures derived from sermons as well as re-creating some of the drama of Matthew's preaching. It offers a new insight into tensions of the pre-Civil War Church.