A | Rational Defence | Of | Non-conformity: | Wherein The | Practice of Nonconformists | Is | Vindicated from Promoting Popery, and Ruining the | Church, Imputed to Them by Dr. Stillingfleet in His | Vnreasonableness of Separation. | Also | His Arguments from the Principles and Way of the Reformers, | and First Dissenters are Answered. And the Case of the Present | Separation, Truly Stated; and the Blame of it Laid where it Ought | to Be. And the Way to Union Among Protestants is Pointed at
A | Rational Defence | Of | Non-conformity: | Wherein The | Practice of Nonconformists | Is | Vindicated from Promoting Popery, and Ruining the | Church, Imputed to Them by Dr. Stillingfleet in His | Vnreasonableness of Separation. | Also | His Arguments from the Principles and Way of the Reformers, | and First Dissenters are Answered. And the Case of the Present | Separation, Truly Stated; and the Blame of it Laid where it Ought | to Be. And the Way to Union Among Protestants is Pointed at

Author: Gilbert Rule

Publisher:

Published: 1689

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522
Lollards of Coventry, 1486-1522

Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-06

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780521830836

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In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Coventry harboured a community of Lollards, adherents of medieval England's only popular heresy. Allowed to flourish relatively unmolested for decades, the Coventry Lollards came under close episcopal scrutiny in 1511 and 1512 when Geoffrey Blyth, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, began a concerted effort to uncover and eradicate their community. This volume presents a remarkable record of the testimony compiled during Blyth's crackdown, along with all other surviving evidence for heretical activities in Coventry. The documents, offered here both in their original languages of Latin and Middle English and in modern English translation, give new insights into the nature of religious dissent in the years just prior to the first stirrings of the English Reformation.

Sacred History
Sacred History

Author: Katherine Van Liere

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2012-05-24

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0199594791

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The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.

Elizabethan Essays
Elizabethan Essays

Author: Patrick Collinson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1994-04-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0826427456

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The age of Elizabeth I exercises a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan personalities, including the queen herself, remain enigmatic; their attitudes to life, politics and religion often difficult to comprehend. Patrick Collinson redraws the main features of the political and religious struggle of the reign. In engaging with the virgin queen herself he tackles the old conundrum: was she a religious woman? He also investigates the no less inscrutable religious position adopted by the by the notorious turncoat, Andrew Perne, the reliability as a historian of the martyrologist John Foxe (whose religion is in no doubt) and the religious environment which shaped William Shakespeare.

Preaching During the English Reformation
Preaching During the English Reformation

Author: Susan Wabuda

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-21

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521453950

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This is a study of the religious culture of sixteenth-century England, centred around preaching, and is concerned with competing forms of evangelism between humanists of the Roman Catholic Church and emerging forms of Protestantism. More than any other authority, Erasmus refashioned the ideal of the preacher. Protestant reformers adopted 'preaching Christ' as their strategy to promote the doctrine of justification by faith. The apostolic traditions of the preaching chantries provided standards that evangelical reformers used to supplant the mendicant friars in England. The late medieval cult of the Holy Name of Jesus is explored: the pervasive iconography of its symbol 'IHS' became one of the attributes of moderate Protestant belief. The book also offers fresh perspectives on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century figures on every side of the doctrinal divide, including John Rotheram, John Colet, Hugh Latimer and Anne Boleyn.

English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640
English Presbyterianism, 1590-1640

Author: Polly Ha

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0804759871

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Drawing on hitherto unexamined manuscripts, this book challenges the standard narrative that English presbyterianism was successfully extinguished from the late sixteenth century until its prominent public resurgence during the English Civil War.

Lollards and Reformers
Lollards and Reformers

Author: Margaret Aston

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1984-07-01

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0826431836

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While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem. Margaret Aston shows how Protestant Reformers derived encouragement from their predecessors, while interpreting Lollards in the light of their own faith. This highly readable book makes an important contribution to the history of the Reformation, bringing to life the men and women of a movement interesting for its own sake and for the light it sheds on the religious and intellectual history of the period.

Salvation at Stake
Salvation at Stake

Author: Brad S. Gregory

Publisher:

Published: 1999-12-03

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13:

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In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs."--BOOK JACKET.

To Live Ancient Lives
To Live Ancient Lives

Author: Theodore Dwight Bozeman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1469600099

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To Live Ancient Lives signals a sharp redirection of Puritan studies. It provides the first comprehensive study of Puritan primitivism, defined as the drive to recover and return to church and society the ordinances of biblical times. This work traces a campaign to purify English Christianity of postapostolic accretions from the Henrician Reformation to the Great Migration of 1630 and through the first five decades in New England. Taking their bearings from a special past, Puritans were not concerned with the future in a modern sense. The Great Migration was not intended as an errand to reform the world or inaugurate the millennium, but as a flight to a free world in which long-lost biblical rules and ways could be reinstituted. Drawing on hundreds of sermons and tracts, Bozeman demonstrates how the search for the long-lost helps to identify Puritanism as a discrete order within Protestant dissent, and he locates that movement within the larger spectrum of restorationist Christian movements and of Western mythology. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.