Representing and Misrepresenting the History of Puritanism in Eighteenth-Century England

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ID12034063
AuthorsRobert G Ingram (0000-0001-7483-8584, Ohio University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume49
Pages205-218
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Church History (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0424-2084 • E-ISSN: 2059-0644
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s042420840000214x
OpenAlexW2328335494
LanguageEN
References cited19

An Englishman living during the mid-eighteenth century would have known that his country had been, at least since the late sixteenth century, a decidedly and, for the long-foreseeable future, an unalterably Protestant nation. But what sort of Protestant nation? One that needed a legally estabhshed church? And, if so, what sort of church should that church as established by law be? Did it, for instance, necessarily require a certain kind of church government? In its relation to the English state, did the church need to be the senior, equal or junior partner? And what rights, if any, should those not conforming to the estabhshed church have? These were vexing questions, and the mid-seventeenth-century civil wars had mostly been an intra-Protestant fight over them. Yet neither those internecine religio-political wars nor the subsequent political revolution of the late seventeenth century had resolved definitively any of the fundamental questions about church and state raised originally by the sixteenth-century religious Reformations. Those who had lived through the Sacheverell crisis, the Bangorian controversy or the fiercely anti-clerical 1730s recognized this all too well: historians, alas, have not

Political science · Politics · Protestantism · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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