Blown by the Spirit : Puritanism and the emergence of an antinomian underground in pre-Civil-War England
This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in prerevolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscript and printed material to reconstruct and contextualize a forgotten but highly significant antinomian religious subculture that evolved at the margins of the early seventeenth-century puritan community. By reconstructing this story, Blown by the Spirit offers a major revision of current understanding of Puritanism and the Puritan community. In the process, the author illuminates the obscure and tangled question of the origins of civil-war radicalism, thereby helping to explain the course, consequences, and ultimate failure of the English revolution
Print Book, English, ©2004
Stanford University Press, Stanford Calif., ©2004
Church history
xii, 513 pages ; 24 cm
9780804744430, 0804744432
53231193
1. Introduction
2. The Sinews of the Antinomian Underground
3. London's Antinomian Controversy
4. The Intellectual Context of Controversy: Law, Faith, and the Paradoxes of Puritan Pastoral Divinity
5. The Kingdom of Traske: The Early Career of John Traske and the Origins of Antinomianism
6. John Eaton, the Eatonists, and the "Imputatative" Strain of English Antinomianism
7. The Throne of Solomon: John Everarde and the "Perfectionist" Strain of English Antinomianism
8. The Grindletonians: Protestant Perfectionism in the North of England
9. Two Strains Crossed: Hybrid Forms of English Antinomianism
10. Ultra-Antinomianism?
11. Forging Heresy: Mainstream Puritans and Laudians on Antinomianism
Epilogue: 1640 and Beyond
App. A. The Influence of Familism in Seventeenth-Century England
App. B. Familist Extracts from the Diary of Edward Howes (British Library, Sloane MS. 979)
App. C. Truth and Fiction in the Archives: Sources, Source-Skepticism, and the Sport of Heresy-Hunting
App. D. Schedule of Errors Alleged Against Roger Bearley, 1616/17
App. E. Letter of John Eachard, 1631