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.

Anglicans and Puritans?
Anglicans and Puritans?

Author: Peter Lake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-05

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 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.

London Presbyterianism and the Politics of Religion During the British Revolutions, C. 1638-64
London Presbyterianism and the Politics of Religion During the British Revolutions, C. 1638-64

Author: Elliot Vernon

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781526157805

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This is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at 'reforming the Reformation' by instituting presbyterianism in London's parishes and ultimately the Church of England. The book analyses the movement's political narrative and its relationship with its patrons in the parliamentarian aristocracy and gentry. It also considers the political and social institutions of London life and examines the presbyterians' opponents within the parliamentarian camp. Finally, it focuses on the intellectual influence of presbyterian ideas on the political thought and polity of the Church and the emergence of dissent at the Restoration.

The crisis of British Protestantism
The crisis of British Protestantism

Author: Hunter Powell

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1526184028

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This book seeks to bring coherence to two of the most studied periods in British history, Caroline non-conformity (pre-1640) and the British revolution (post-1642). It does so by focusing on the pivotal years of 1638–44 where debates around non-conformity within the Church of England morphed into a revolution between Parliament and its king. Parliament, saddled with the responsibility of re-defining England’s church, called its Westminster assembly of divines to debate and define the content and boundaries of that new church. Typically this period has been studied as either an ecclesiastical power struggle between Presbyterians and independents, or as the harbinger of modern religious toleration. This book challenges those assumptions and provides an entirely new framework for understanding one of the most important moments in British history.