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The boxmaker's revenge : "orthodoxy", "heterodoxy", and the politics of the parish in early Stuart London

Peter Lake
The book's two major players are Stephen Denison, a London minister, who in 1627, in his own church, first denounced one John Etherington, an erstwhile boxmaker and sectmaster, who was appearing there in person under the supervision of jailers. Denison denounced Etherington a heretic, familist, and an anabaptist, and went on to further malign Etherington in the work, The White Wolfe or A Sermon Preached at Paul's Cross. But Etherington eventually got his say in print 14 years later when the minister came under the scrutiny from the High Commission, the same body that had sentenced Etherington. Taking this altercation as its source, Lake (history, Princeton) places "the dispute in the multiple social, cultural, polemical and political contexts necessary to see what was going on here...What did their dispute mean? What issues did it raise and what do they have to tell us about the religious history of early Stuart England." c. Book News Inc
Print Book, English, 2001
Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK, 2001
Church history
x, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780719059674, 9780804737173, 9780804741286, 0719059674, 0804737177, 080474128X
45327513
Part 1 Stephen Denison: introduction - the occasion; the puritanism of Stephen Denison i; the puritanism of Stephen Denison ii. Part 2 John Etherington: Denison and Etherington or was John Etherington a familist?; another pair of initials? T.L., H.N. and the ideological formation of the young Etherington; what Etherington really thought - the 1620s. Part 3 The London puritan scene: the London puritan underground; William Chibald and the strange case of "a trial of faith"; doctrinal dispute and damage limitation in the London puritan community. Part 4 Denison and Etherington again: heading for the high ground - Denison and Etherington on order, authority and orthodoxy; the Laudian style and the politics of the parish pump; retrospective - Denison and Etherington position themselves for posterity.
Originally published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001