In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the
High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and
counterfeiting. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had
"taught 4. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year
period, fashioning himself into a miracle worker. Coming to the
attention of the public through his dramatic and successful role as
an exorcist in the late sixteenth century, Darrell became a symbol
of Puritan spirituality and the subject of fierce ecclesiastical
persecution. The High Commission of John Darrell became a
flashpoint for theological and demonological debate, functioning as
a catalyst for spiritual reform in the early seventeenth-century
English Church. John Darrell has long been maligned by scholars; a
historiographical perception that this book challenges. The English
Exorcist is the first study to provide an in-depth scholarly
treatment of Darrell's exorcism ministry and his demonology. It
shines new light on the corpus of theological treatises that
emerged from the Darrell Controversy, thereby illustrating the
profound impact of Darrell's exorcism ministry on early modern
Reformed English Protestant demonology. The book establishes an
intellectual biography of this figure and sketches out the full
compelling story of the Darrell Controversy.
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