The Religion of Protestants
Author | : Patrick Collinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1982 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015054089191 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This is the first paperback edition of The Religion of Protestants (originally published in 1982). This revised and extended version of the Ford Lectures for 1979 takes the form of a series of studies of the constituent elements of post-Reformation ecclesiastical and religious life: crown, bishops, clergy, magistrates, and people. A concluding chapter investigates the extent of voluntary and semi-private religious activity in early Stuart England. Professor Collinson emphasizes the integrity of the Church rather than its structural weaknesses and divisions into Puritan and Anglican tendencies, and he stresses the conservative rather than the 'radical’ influence exerted by the protestant religion on society.