John Coffey
Biographic Data
| ID | 3676202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Coffey |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Coffey |
| SIGNATURE | COFFEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Elesha J. Coffman. 2024. Turning Points in American Church History: How Pivotal Events Shaped a Nation and a Faith
DavidBebbington and David CeriJones: Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales . London and New York : Routledge , 2021 ; pp. x + 218
I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader
This article investigates a forgotten moment in the pre-history of British abolitionism: the publication of an anonymous ‘Relation’ written by a penitent Liverpool slave trader and printed in Anthony Benezet’s A Short Account (1762). The article suggests that the Philadelphia Quaker acquired the Liverpool ‘Relation’ via the London Dissenting publishers of Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760). Identifying close parallels between events described …
Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon
Reviewed by: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? by Jane Lydon John Coffey Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land?. By Jane Lydon. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. The starting point for this thought-provoking study is a statement made by Captain Arthur Phillip shortly before the First Fleet sailed for New South Wales in 1787. The founding principle of the new settlement, he declared, should be "[t]hat there…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 2: Part II, Part III, and the Additions: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the M…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 3: Documents: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of H…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 1: Introductions and Part I: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the Most Memorabl…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 4: Documents and Appendices: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the Most Memorabl…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 5: Glossary, Chronology, Bibliographies, and Indexes: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narra…
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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City: Dissenting, Methodist, and Evangelical Literary Culture in England, 1720–1800
This book has been eagerly awaited, and it does not disappoint. Many readers will be familiar with Isabel Rivers's earlier work, Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England, 1660–1780, Volume I: Whichcote to Wesley (1991). Since then, the author has made major contributions to the field through the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, the Dissenting Academies project, and the Queen Mary Centre f…
Teresa M. Bejan. Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
Teresa M. Bejan describes Mere Civility (using Andrew Murphy’s phrase) as a work of “historically informed political theory” (14). It reassesses the current “crisis of civility” and addresses one of the most pressing challenges faced by pluralistic societies: how do we deal with diversity and disagreement? The book has already been featured in a roundtable discussion on The Immanent Frame, reviewed in the New York Times and the LA Review of Books…
Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640
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Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution, by John Donoghue
In recent years, the historiography of the English Revolution has become increasingly fragmented and dispassionate. The field remains crowded and dynamic, as illustrated by The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (2014), edited by Michael Braddick. Yet, in place of the grand narrative of Christopher Hill, we have a plethora of scholarly approaches and local stories, and an increasing concern to understand contemporaries in their own terms, …
Patient participation in clinical encounters: A systematic review to identify self‐report measures
Exodus and liberation: Deliverance politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr
Tracing a series of political crises in Anglo-American history from the 16th-century Reformation to the civil rights movement Coffey excavates the history of deliverance politics testifying to the powerful political appeal of the Exodus, the Jubilee and the biblical language of liberty.
Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.
Exodus and Liberation is a groundbreaking study of Protestant “deliverance politics” from the Reformation to the civil rights movement. It presents a new account of how the Bible’s liberationist texts were deployed and contested in a series of political crises in British and American history. It argues that Exodus and Jubilee carried one of the big ideas in Anglophone political culture–the idea of deliverance. Christians have read Exodus politica…
“Pretended Votaries for Freedom”
The revolutionary assault on “political slavery” had an unintended consequence: it drew attention to the enslavement of black Africans by white Protestants. Although this moral contradiction aroused unease as early as the 1650s, it was not until the American Revolution that an antislavery movement began to coalesce. It was at this juncture that white abolitionists and black Protestants latched onto Exodus, Jubilee, and the New Testament language …
Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a cont…
Religion
This article examines the religious aspects of the English Revolution. The impact of religion is seen in events such as Parliament's seven years of monthly fast days between 1642 and 1649; the executions of Catholic priests; the mass ejection of royalist and Episcopal clergy; William Dowsing's iconoclastic purge of the churches and chapels of East Anglia; the witch-hunt spearheaded by Matthew Hopkins in the same Puritan heartlands; the abolition …
Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer
Journal Article Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer Get access Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2010; pp. 264; £55). J. Coffey J. Coffey University of Leicester [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue …
Tremble, Britannia: Fear, Providence and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1758-1807
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in English Historical Review following peer review. The version of record English Historical Review, 2012, 127 (527), pp. 844-881 is available online at: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/527/844
The Church of England and Christian Antiquity: The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th Century, by Jean-Louis Quantin
Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I
The title of Stephen Hampton's important revisionist monograph mirrors Nicholas Tyacke's Anti-Calvinists (1987; rev. ante, ciii [1988], 425–7). Both books make a strong case for the weight of Calvinist (or better, Reformed) theology within the post-Reformation Church of England. Tyacke demonstrated that, far from plotting a via media between Rome and Geneva, most of the leading theologians within the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church were firmly al…
Puritanism and Liberty Revisited: The Case for Toleration in the English Revolution
In recent years historians have grown sceptical about attempts to trace connections between puritanism and liberty. Puritans, we are told, sought a godly society, not a pluralistic one. The new emphasis has been salutary, but it obscures the fact that a minority of zealous Protestants argued forcefully for the toleration of heresy, blasphemy, Catholicism, non-Christian religions, and even atheism. During the English revolution, a substantial numb…
Tremble, Britannia: Fear, Providence and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1758-1807
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in English Historical Review following peer review. The version of record English Historical Review, 2012, 127 (527), pp. 844-881 is available online at: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/527/844
I was an Eye-witness’: John Newton, Anthony Benezet, and the Confession of a Liverpool Slave Trader
This article investigates a forgotten moment in the pre-history of British abolitionism: the publication of an anonymous ‘Relation’ written by a penitent Liverpool slave trader and printed in Anthony Benezet’s A Short Account (1762). The article suggests that the Philadelphia Quaker acquired the Liverpool ‘Relation’ via the London Dissenting publishers of Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760). Identifying close parallels between events described …
Milton, Locke and the New History of Toleration
For three centuries now, John Milton and John Locke have been hailed as heroic advocates of religious freedom. Securely ensconced in the pantheon of liberal icons, they continue to be enlisted in the cause of liberty. In the wake of 9/11, a number of writers have retold the tale of how enlightened progressives rescued the West from the forces of theocratic repression. Milton and Locke loom large in that story. They have starring roles in Perez Za…
Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931
In 1883 the radical journalist W. E. Adams described community self-government as 'the essence of all political liberalism that is worthy of the name'. This collaborative volume of essays enlarges upon Adams' thesis, applying it to the study of various 'currents of radicalism' in Britain and Ireland, and ranging from Victorian advanced liberals to Irish and Welsh socialists in the 1920s. Citizenship and Community explores the links between libera…
Puritanism and Liberty Revisited: The Case for Toleration in the English Revolution
In recent years historians have grown sceptical about attempts to trace connections between puritanism and liberty. Puritans, we are told, sought a godly society, not a pluralistic one. The new emphasis has been salutary, but it obscures the fact that a minority of zealous Protestants argued forcefully for the toleration of heresy, blasphemy, Catholicism, non-Christian religions, and even atheism. During the English revolution, a substantial numb…
Allan, Philosophy and Politics
Spinks, Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines
Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture
This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significan…
Puritan legacies
Puritanism has been credited (and blamed) for bequeathing a puzzling set of legacies, including the spirit of capitalism, scientific enterprise, Anglo-Saxon sexual repression, companionate marriage, liberal democracy, American exceptionalism and religious bigotry. Puritans have been hailed as midwives of modernity, and censured as reactionary foes of enlightened values. In the first half of this chapter, I want to introduce some of the grand theo…
The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism
'Puritan' was originally a term of contempt, and 'Puritanism' has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England. But it was never monolithic or purely oppositional, and its impact reverberated far beyond seventeenth-century England and New England. This Companion broaden…
Milton, Locke and the New History of Toleration
For three centuries now, John Milton and John Locke have been hailed as heroic advocates of religious freedom. Securely ensconced in the pantheon of liberal icons, they continue to be enlisted in the cause of liberty. In the wake of 9/11, a number of writers have retold the tale of how enlightened progressives rescued the West from the forces of theocratic repression. Milton and Locke loom large in that story. They have starring roles in Perez Za…
Reformation and Religious Identity in Cambridge, 1590-1644
Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I
The title of Stephen Hampton's important revisionist monograph mirrors Nicholas Tyacke's Anti-Calvinists (1987; rev. ante, ciii [1988], 425–7). Both books make a strong case for the weight of Calvinist (or better, Reformed) theology within the post-Reformation Church of England. Tyacke demonstrated that, far from plotting a via media between Rome and Geneva, most of the leading theologians within the Elizabethan and Jacobean Church were firmly al…
The Church of England and Christian Antiquity: The Construction of a Confessional Identity in the 17th Century, by Jean-Louis Quantin
Religion
This article examines the religious aspects of the English Revolution. The impact of religion is seen in events such as Parliament's seven years of monthly fast days between 1642 and 1649; the executions of Catholic priests; the mass ejection of royalist and Episcopal clergy; William Dowsing's iconoclastic purge of the churches and chapels of East Anglia; the witch-hunt spearheaded by Matthew Hopkins in the same Puritan heartlands; the abolition …
Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer
Journal Article Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer Get access Reason and Religion in the English Revolution: The Challenge of Socinianism, by Sarah Mortimer (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2010; pp. 264; £55). J. Coffey J. Coffey University of Leicester [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVII, Issue …
Tremble, Britannia: Fear, Providence and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1758-1807
This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in English Historical Review following peer review. The version of record English Historical Review, 2012, 127 (527), pp. 844-881 is available online at: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/127/527/844
Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.
Exodus and Liberation is a groundbreaking study of Protestant “deliverance politics” from the Reformation to the civil rights movement. It presents a new account of how the Bible’s liberationist texts were deployed and contested in a series of political crises in British and American history. It argues that Exodus and Jubilee carried one of the big ideas in Anglophone political culture–the idea of deliverance. Christians have read Exodus politica…
“Pretended Votaries for Freedom”
The revolutionary assault on “political slavery” had an unintended consequence: it drew attention to the enslavement of black Africans by white Protestants. Although this moral contradiction aroused unease as early as the 1650s, it was not until the American Revolution that an antislavery movement began to coalesce. It was at this juncture that white abolitionists and black Protestants latched onto Exodus, Jubilee, and the New Testament language …
Freedom and the Construction of Europe: Volume 1, Religious Freedom and Civil Liberty
Freedom, today perceived simply as a human right, was a continually contested idea in the early modern period. In Freedom and the Construction of Europe an international group of scholars explore the richness, diversity and complexity of thinking about freedom in the shaping of modernity. Volume 1 examines debates about religious and constitutional liberties, as well as exploring the tensions between free will and divine omnipotence across a cont…
Exodus and liberation: Deliverance politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr
Tracing a series of political crises in Anglo-American history from the 16th-century Reformation to the civil rights movement Coffey excavates the history of deliverance politics testifying to the powerful political appeal of the Exodus, the Jubilee and the biblical language of liberty.
Patient participation in clinical encounters: A systematic review to identify self‐report measures
Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Fire under the Ashes: An Atlantic History of the English Revolution, by John Donoghue
In recent years, the historiography of the English Revolution has become increasingly fragmented and dispassionate. The field remains crowded and dynamic, as illustrated by The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution (2014), edited by Michael Braddick. Yet, in place of the grand narrative of Christopher Hill, we have a plethora of scholarly approaches and local stories, and an increasing concern to understand contemporaries in their own terms, …
Teresa M. Bejan. Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
Teresa M. Bejan describes Mere Civility (using Andrew Murphy’s phrase) as a work of “historically informed political theory” (14). It reassesses the current “crisis of civility” and addresses one of the most pressing challenges faced by pluralistic societies: how do we deal with diversity and disagreement? The book has already been featured in a roundtable discussion on The Immanent Frame, reviewed in the New York Times and the LA Review of Books…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 2: Part II, Part III, and the Additions: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the M…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 3: Documents: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of H…
Reliquiae Baxterianae: Or, Mr. Richard Baxter's Narrative of the Most Memorable Passages of his Life and Times, Vol. 1: Introductions and Part I: Or, Mr. Richard Baxters Narrative of the Most Memorabl…
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