{"product_id":"blown-by-the-spirit-9780804744430","title":"Blown by the Spirit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlown by the Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e traces the story of the Antinomians, the most important puritan radical group of the English civil war. Most historians have been skeptical about the existence of this group, or any group like it. This book provides proof of the existence of the Antinomians as well as the important role they played in the pre-history of the English civil-war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With enormous ingenuity, diligence and archival skill, Como provides a new and compelling explanation of the origins of sectarian radicalism.\" -- Sears McGee * University of California, Santa Barbara *\u003cbr\u003e\". . . Como deserves the high praise for completing a project that some would have thought impossible.\" -- \u003ci\u003eH-Net Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a marvelous and much-needed book: impressively researched, engaging and demanding, finely nuanced and robustly argued.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Using antinomianism as his vehicle, he has reconstructed the complex and symbiotic relationship between radical and mainstream Puritanism and established the presence of its legacy in late-seventeenth-century England. This ambitious project is a touchstone for future work in the field of English Puritanism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Those who thought we knew all there was to know abot the doctrinal subtleties of the iron-souled band that turned England upside down and conquered a corner of the New World have some reading yet to do. On the required list...belongs Como's magisterial new book on the 'seething sectarian underworld' of mystics, familists, grindletonians, and other antinomans that existed in 'parasitic relationship' to mainstream Puritanism in the two decades leading up to the Civil War.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Interdisciplinary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlown by the Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliantly conceived and meticulously researched exploration of what Como calls an \"antinomian underground\" in early Stuart England, of its dialectical relationship to mainstream Puritanism, and of that dialectic's historical influence.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTheological Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this fascinating, deeply researched, and illuminating book, David Como takes his readers on an intellectual adventure which transforms our understanding of early Stuart puritanism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Como has mounted a strong and important argument that deserves to be widely known.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of Ecclesiastical History\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865942962519,"sku":"9780804744430","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804744430.jpg?v=1722276302","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blown-by-the-spirit-9780804744430","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}