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God's Instruments - Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (Paperback)
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God's Instruments - Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (Paperback)
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The
parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not
want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven
years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of
the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in
English history. There were startling and unexpected developments,
too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the
attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; and new
thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and
society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of
radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of
the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649
to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. Its theme is the
relationship between the beliefs or convictions of politicians and
their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical
dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the
workings of divine providence affected political conduct;
Cromwell's commitment to liberty of conscience and his search for
godly reformation through educational reform; the constitutional
premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for
supremacy between parliamentary and military rule; and the
relationship between conceptions of civil and religious liberty.
The conflicts Worden reconstructs are placed in the perspective of
long-term developments, of which many historians have lost sight.
The final chapters turn to the guiding convictions of two writers
at the heart of politics, John Milton and the royalist Edward Hyde,
Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously published essays, much
of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with newly
written chapters to bring fresh evidence and argument to a period
of lively debate and interest.
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