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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together 12 essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689.
Trade Review"'This is an outstanding collection of essays, and will enhance an already strong series.' Dr Kenneth Fincham, University of Kent at Canterbury"
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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Introduction
1. Re-thinking the English Reformation
2. The ‘Rise of Puritanism’ and the legalising of dissent, 1571-1719
3. Popular Puritan mentality in Late Elizabethan England
4. The fortunes of English Puritanism, 1603-1640
5. Puritanism, Arminianism and counter-Revolution
6. The rise of Arminianism reconsidered
7. Anglican attitudes: Some recent writings on English religious history, from the Reformation to the Civil War
8. Archbishop Laud
9. Arminianism and English culture
10. Science and religion at Oxford before the Civil War
11. Religious controversy during the seventeenth century: The case of Oxford Arminianism and the theology of the Restoration Church
Appendix: Defining Arminianism
