| The Puritans on Independence: The First Examination, Defence, and Second Examination Contributor(s): Ha, Polly (Editor), Moore, Jonathan D. (Editor), Frankot, Edda (Editor) |
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ISBN: 019966482X ISBN-13: 9780199664825 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $204.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Religion | Christianity - History |
| LCCN: 2016960649 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (1.80 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Puritans on Independence sheds light on the rise of new claims by puritans to freedom as independence several decades earlier than modern scholarship has assumed. This critical edition of long-lost English manuscripts provides access to a set of treatises which are the most significant hitherto unpublished texts for understanding puritan debate over this concept of liberty. Although once mis-catalogued as anti-separatist polemic, they in fact document the presbyterians' clandestine First Examination of Henry Jacob's argument for independent liberty and ecclesiology. It includes Jacob's Defence of his early congregational experiment in response to the First Examination. The volume concludes with the presbyterians' Second Examination of Jacob's Defence in 1620, written several years after the erection of Jacob's independent church in Southwark. This work provides unprecedented insight into divisions among the godly in England before the public contentions over church government in the Westminster Assembly during the mid-seventeenth century. The introductory chapter traces the development of radical notions of liberty among puritans over the first half of the seventeenth century through to the English Revolution. All this had a lasting impact well beyond the British Isles and the early modern period. The edition will be of interest to early modern and modern scholars across many disciplines, from history and divinity to English literature and political science. |