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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I - The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689 (Hardcover)
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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I - The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689 (Hardcover)
Series: The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions
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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I
traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the
post-Reformation era between the Act of Uniformity (1559) and the
Act of Toleration (1689). It reassesses the relationship between
establishment and Dissent, emphasising that Presbyterians and
Congregationalists were serious contenders in the struggle for
religious hegemony. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts,
separatists were few in number, and Dissent was largely contained
within the Church of England, as nonconformists sought to reform
the national Church from within. During the English Revolution
(1640-60), Puritan reformers seized control of the state but
splintered into rival factions with competing programmes of
ecclesiastical reform. Only after the Restoration, following the
ejection of two thousand Puritan clergy from the Church, did most
Puritans become Dissenters, often with great reluctance. Dissent
was not the inevitable terminus of Puritanism, but the contingent
and unintended consequence of the Puritan drive for further
reformation. The story of Dissent is thus bound up with the contest
for the established Church, not simply a heroic tale of persecuted
minorities contending for religious toleration. Nevertheless, in
the half century after 1640, religious pluralism became a fact of
English life, as denominations formed and toleration was widely
advocated. The volume explores how Presbyterians,
Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers began to forge distinct
identities as the four major denominational traditions of English
Dissent. It tracks the proliferation of Anglophone Protestant
Dissent beyond England-in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Dutch
Republic, New England, Pennsylvania, and the Caribbean. And it
presents the latest research on the culture of Dissenting
congregations, including their relations with the parish, their
worship, preaching, gender relations, and lay experience.
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