The Boxmaker's Revenge: 'orthodoxy', 'heterodoxy', and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London

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Manchester University Press, 2001 - 422 páginas
This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640.Through Denison the book analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. Through Etherington, it eavesdrops on a London puritan underground that has remained largely hidden from view and which, while it was related to, indeed, parasitic upon, was not coterminous with, the order and orthodoxy-centred puritanism of Stephen Denison.By placing the Denison/Etherington dispute in its multiple contexts, the book becomes a study of puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute; of lay clerical relations and of the politics of the parish; and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London.
 

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underpinnings II
11
ii ecclesiastical forms
53
Denison and Etherington or was John Etherington a familist?
86
Another pair of initials? T L H N and the ideological formation
120
the 1620s
148
The London puritan underground
170
William Chibald and the strange case of A trial of faith
190
Doctrinal dispute and damage limitation in the London puritan
218
Denison and Etherington on order
262
The Laudian style and the politics of the parishpump
298
Denison and Etherington position themselves
342
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Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

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