1st Edition
Thomas White and the Blackloists Between Politics and Theology during the English Civil War
By Stefania Tutino
Copyright 2008
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is the first book-length study of the political and theological views of Thomas White (alias Blacklo) and his followers the Blackloists. It both complements and opens up new lines of inquiry in the context of the current scholarship in two main areas. On the one hand, historians of early modern England are paying a tremendous amount of attention to the English Catholic Church, stressing the... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Thomas White and the beginnings of the Blackloist group; The Blackloists' natural philosophy and theology; The Blackloists' politics; The Grounds of Obedience and Government; The Blackloists and the Lord Protector; 'To little purpose': the end of the Blackloist group; Conclusion: an assessment of the Blackloist experience; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Index.
Biography
Professor Stefania Tutino is based in the Department of History at the University of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
’... Tutino's work is an important contribution to the continuing reintegration of Catholics into English history.’ The Tablet ’... [Tutino’s] book, compactly written and cogently argued, illuminates the hitherto underexplored aspects of English religious and intellectual history by putting White and the Blackloists at the key nexus between old and new paradigms in scientific and religious discourse.’ American Historical Review ’The author’s analysis of White’s The Grounds of Obedience and Government (London, 1655) is very good.’ Catholic Historical Review
