Predestination, Policy and Polemic: Conflict and Consensus in the English Church from the Reformation to the Civil War

by Peter White

Book Overview

This important work refutes a currently fashionable consensus that maintains that the English Civil War can be seen as primarily the result of a Laudian and Arminian assault on a previously predominant Calvinism. According to this picture, the isolation of the court from Calvinist opinions, and the aggressive Arminian policies pursued during the reign of Charles I, ultimately drove previously law-abiding Calvinists into counter-resistance to the king...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892503
• ISBN13: 9780521892506
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"