Radical Puritans in England 1550 - 1660

ISBN-13: 9780582355156 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 120 str.

R.J. Acheson

Opis

Aims to guide A-level students and undergraduates through the area of religious separatism in the century before the English Civil War. It also attempts to show where the religious tensions that came to the fore during the Civil War and Interregnum had their roots.

Spis treści

Part One: The Background:
The Radical Tradition.
Part Two Analysis:
1 The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church: The Marian Persecution and the Growth of Separatism.
2. Religious Separatism in the Reign of Elizabeth I.
3. Religious Divisions in Jacobean England.
4. `The Two Smoaking Firebrands': Laud and the Growth of Religious Separatism.
5. The Disciplining of Dissent: Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists 1640 - 1660.
6. `Happy Seeker, Happy Finder': The Seekers.
7. `All Manner of Filthiness': The Ranters.
8 `The Truth of Light Within': The Quaker Movement.
Part Three: Assessment
9. The Radical Legacy.
Part Four: Documents.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.

O autorze

R.J. Acheson