Roberts's work combines aspects of social, intellectual and cultural history . . . The resulting portrait of Venning's Puritanism than Patrick Collinson's depiction of the stressful relationship between Anglican and Puritan, with a more ambiguous line of demarcation between the two, and a theology less driven by predestinarian ideas.
FIDES ET HISTORIA
[Makes] a significant contribution to Puritan ... Read morestudies..[Roberts] has produced an admirable work on a rather obscure and understudied Puritan.
CHURCH HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE
Roberts's study of Venning critically adds to studies that complicate imagery of Puritans. This book is particularly creative in its points about happiness, the individual, and the community . Roberts's book is one of excellent original research and refreshing perspective.
READING RELIGION
From the foreword by John Coffey: 'Meticulously researched and contextualized, Roberts' study should interest historians of Puritan spirituality, Cambridge Platonism, the Reformed tradition, and the religious culture of the English Revolution.
.
From the foreword by Alec Ryrie: 'Venning's vision of the Puritan life, as Roberts lays it out for us, provides a fresh insight into how those who lived through these turbulent years found meaning in them. It also has powerful resonances for an age of 'happiness economics' or 'Christian hedonism', when happiness nevertheless can seem as elusive as ever.
.
Show Less