Patrick Collinson

The Elizabethan Puritan Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an authoritative and revealing study of an important yet relatively unexplored force in English history. The Elizabethan puritan movement arose from discontent with the religious settlement of 1559 and the desire among many of the clergy and laity for a `further reformation'. The more radical wished to change the structure of the Church, substituting a presbyterian order for episcopacy. They became, in fact, a revolutionary movement, whose clandestine organization and agitation through parliament constituted a serious threat to the state. It is only in this age of comparable subversive activities that the full significance and danger of the movement can be measured.

Review quote:
His erudition is unrivalled, his industry indefatigable. He has traced the Puritan underground movement in detail, identified its agents, discovered its local centres and secret workings. (Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Times)
Dr Collinson's intelligent and important book ... tells a fascinating and plausible story of the rise of a revolutionary movement and its ultimate destruction. (Lawrence Stone, New Statesman)

Table of contents:
Preface; Part One: Puritanism and the Elizabethan church; Part two: The breach opens; Part three: The first Presbyterians; Part four: Moderate courses; Part five: 1584; Part six: The grand design; Part seven: Presbytery in Episcopacy; Part eight: Discovery, prosecution and dissolution; Abbreviations; Notes and references; Index

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198222989
• ISBN-10: 019822298X
• Artikelnr.: 21677218

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Puritanism and the Elizabethan Church 1. The Church of England and
the English Churches 2. 'But Halfly Reformed.' 3. The Beginnings of a Party
Part 2: The Breach Opens 1. So Many Learned and Religious Bishops 2. That
Comical Dress 3. London's Protestant Underworld 4. The People and the
Pope's Attire Part 3: The First Presbyterians 1. A New Dogma 2. The
Circumstances of its Assertion 3. The Universities and the New Men 4. The
Early Presbyterian Movement 5. An Inquisition and a Witch-Hunt Part 4:
Moderate Courses 1. Grindal 2. The Prophesyings 3. Pastores Pastorum: The
Promise of Grindal's Church 4. Reaction 5. Exercises, Conferences and Fasts
6. The Dedham Conference Part 5: 1584 1. Whitgift 2. The First Round 3. The
Second Round 4. The Parliament of 1584-5 Part 6: The Grand Design 1. The
Book of Discipline 2. The Bill and Book 3. A Mixed Reception Part 7:
Presbytery in Episcopacy 1. The Congregation and its Ministers 2.
Discipline and the Eldership 3. Worship 4. The Meetings of the Godly Part
8: Discovery, Prosecution and Dissolution 1. Partly Fearing, Partly Hoping
2. On Trial 3. The Star Chamber 4. Underground and Diverted 5. The End of a
Movement