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The Puritans on Independence. The First Examination, Defence, and Second Examination.
. Ed(S): Ha, Polly; Moore, Jonathan D.; Frankot, Edda
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Hardback. A scholarly edition of a set of manuscripts which reveal the political and ecclesiastical views of the Puritans in the period between their official suppression by the crown in 1592 and their sudden resurgence around the time of the English Civil Wars. Editor(s): Ha, Polly; Moore, Jonathan D.; Frankot, Edda. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HRCC2; HRCX. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
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edition of long-lost English manuscripts provides access to a set of treatises which are the most significant hitherto unpublished texts for understanding puritan debate over this concept of liberty.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 ... Read more
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edition of long-lost English manuscripts provides access to a set of treatises which are the most significant hitherto unpublished texts for understanding puritan debate over this concept of liberty.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199664825
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V9780199664825
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About . Ed(S): Ha, Polly; Moore, Jonathan D.; Frankot, Edda
Polly Ha is a Reader in History at the University of East Anglia, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is Director of The History of Independence Project and formerly taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Southern California. Jonathan D. Moore holds a PhD in historical theology and ecclesiastical history ... Read more
Reviews for The Puritans on Independence. The First Examination, Defence, and Second Examination.
Ha and her team have provided a great service in making these texts available to the scholarly community. The documents are transcribed with great care and accompanied by extensive footnotes and images of key passages from the original manuscripts, such as one in which Jacobs critics first use the term independency to highlight the novelty of his position...[This book] will ... Read more