Runagately Rogue
Tobias Gregory: Puritans and Others, 25 August 2011
The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640
by Christopher Haigh.
Oxford, 284 pp., £32, September 2009,978 0 19 921650 5 Show More
by Christopher Haigh.
Oxford, 284 pp., £32, September 2009,
“... today might well be surprised by its liveliness. As you’d expect, Theologus and Philagathus are keen on preaching, church attendance and private devotion, and take a hard line on ignorance and sin. Theologus preaches a standard predestinarian Calvinism, which at the turn of the 17th century had not yet taken on the anti-establishment associations it would ... ”