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List of contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Gathered Church Life and the Experience of Dissent
- 1: Joel Halcomb: Godly Order and the Trumpet of Defiance: The Politics of Congregational Church Life during the English Revolution
- 2: Elliot Vernon: Godly Pastors and their Congregations in Mid-Seventeenth-Century London
- 3: Kathleen Lynch: 'Letting a Room in London-House': A Place for Dissent in Civil War London
- 4: Chad Van Dixhoorn: God's Physicians: Models of Pastoral Care at the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653
- 5: Polly Ha: The Freedom of Association and Ecclesiastical Independence
- 6: Crawford Gribben: The Experience of Dissent: John Owen and Congregational Life in Revolutionary and Restoration England
- 7: N. H. Keeble: The Reformed Pastor as Nonconformist: Richard Baxter After 1662
- 8: Ann Hughes: Print and Pastoral Identity: Presbyterian Pastors Negotiate the Restoration
- 9: Michael Davies: Life After Bunyan: Ebenezer Chandler and the Bedford Congregation, 1689-1710
- 10: Anne Dunan-Page: 'Not Keeping One's Place in the Church': The Disaffected Dissenters
About the author
Michael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Among his publications is Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (2002). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan (with W. R. Owens; 2018).
Anne Dunan-Page is Professor of Early Modern British Studies at Aix-Marseille Université, where she directs the Research Centre on the Anglophone World. Her books include Grace Overwhelming: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the Extremes of the Baptist Mind (2006), The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan (2010), and Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (with Beth Lynch; 2008).
Joel Halcomb is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He was assistant editor for The Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1652 (2012).
Summary
This volume addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century.
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The essays here offer valuable insights into the forces that helped to determine the content and direction of the differing streams through changing ecclesiastical and political times.
