Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker

by Peter Lake

Book Overview

Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church. This book shed new light on the crucial disagreements between puritans and conformists and the importance of these divisions for political processes within both the church and wider society. The originality and complexity of Richard Hooker's thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036762964X
• ISBN13: 9780367629649
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"