1st Edition

Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker

By Peter Lake Copyright 1988
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. What Was the Admonition Controversy About? 2. Presbyterian Tactics 3. Conformist Thought After Whitgift 4. Richard Hooker

Biography

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School; Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, USA.