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The Boxmaker's Revenge: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London

'Orthodoxy', 'heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London

by Peter Lake

  • Paperback
  • 432 pages
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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'This is a fascinating and very important book on conflicts and their resolution (or attempted resolution) within early Stuart London Puritanism. It has vital things to say about the complexity and contradictory potentials within Puritanism divinity and Puritan milieux. It challenges a variety of simple notions about Puritanism as either consensual/establishment/mainstream or extremist/unpopular, by analyzing a series of conflicts, encounters, and juxtapositions amongst London Puritans. At its heart are remarkable individuals vividly portrayed - the aggressive and paranoid Puritan minister Stephen Denison and the perhaps heretical box-maker Etherington.' Professor Paul Seaver, Stanford University This book is based on a story. Its main protagonists are a London clergyman, Stephen Denison, and a lay sectmaster and prophet, John Etherington. The dispute between the two men blew up in the mid-1620s, but its reverberations can be traced back to the 1590s and continued to 1640. Through Denison, the book analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. Through Etherington, it eavesdrops on a London puritan underground that has remained largely hidden from view and which, while it was related to, indeed, parasitic upon, was not coterminous with, the order and orthodoxy-centred puritanism of Stephen Denison. By placing the Denison/Etherington dispute in its multiple contexts, the book becomes a study of puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute; of lay clerical relations and of the politics of the parish; and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London. It also discusses the local effects of national theological/political events such as the rise of Laudianism and the Personal Rule of Charles I, finally analysing the long-term origins of the ideological cacophany of the 1640s.
The Boxmaker's Revenge: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London and Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker
Anglicans and Puritans?: Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to HookerThe Boxmaker's Revenge: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London

  • Author

    Peter Lake

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Manchester University Press

  • Published

    April 2009

  • Weight

    609g

  • Page Count

    432

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780719080500

  • ISBN-10

    0719080509

  • Eden Code

    4327740

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