Boxmaker's Revenge

Peter Lake is University Professor of History at Princeton University

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsPart 1 – Stephen Denison1. Introduction: the occasion2. The puritanism of Stephen Denison: i. doctrinal and pietistic underpinnings3. The puritanism of Stephen Denison: ii. ecclesiastical forms and political consequencesPart 2 – John Etherington4. Denison and Etherington or was John Etherington a familist?5. Another pair of initials? T.L., H.N. and the ideological formation of the young Etherington6. What Etherington really thought: the 1620sPart 3 – The London puritan scene7. The London puritan underground8. William Chibald and the strange case of ‘A trial of faith’9. Doctrinal dispute and damage limitation in the London puritan communityPart 4 – Denison and Etherington again10. Heading for the high ground: Denison and Etherington on order, authority and orthodoxy11. The Laudian style and the politics of the parish-pump12. Retrospective: Denison and Etherington position themselves for posterity13. ConclusionIndex

'This is a fascinating and very important book on conflicts and their resolution (or attempted resolution) within early Stuart London Puritanism. It has vital things to say about the complexity and contradictory potentials within Puritanism divinity and Puritan milieux. It challenges a variety of simple notions about Puritanism as either consensual/establishment/mainstream or extremist/unpopular, by analyzing a series of conflicts, encounters, and juxtapositions amongst London Puritans. At its heart are remarkable individuals vividly portrayed - the aggressive and paranoid Puritan minister Stephen Denison and the perhaps heretical box-maker Etherington.' Professor Paul Seaver, Stanford University