The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism

John Coffey is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. His publications include John Godwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England (2006) and Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford (1997, 2002). Paul C. H. Lim is Assistant Professor of Reformation History at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. He is author of In Pursuit of Purity, Unity and Liberty: Richard Baxter's Puritan Ecclesiology in its Seventeenth-Century Context (2004).

• Introduction John Coffey and Paul C. H. Lim; Part I. English Puritanism: 1. Antipuritanism Patrick Collinson; 2. The growth of English Puritanism John Craig; 3. Early Stuart Puritanism Tom Webster; 4. The Puritan revolution John Morrill; 5. Later Stuart Puritanism John Spurr; Part II. Beyond England: 6. Puritanism and the Continental Reformed Churches Anthony Milton; 7. The Puritan experiment in New England, 1630–60 Francis J. Bremer; 8. New England, 1660–1730 David D. Hall; 9. Puritanism in Ireland and Wales Crawford Gribben; 10. The problem of Scotland's Puritans Margo Todd; Part III. Major Themes: 11. Practical divinity and spirituality Charles Hambrick-Stowe; 12. Puritan polemical divinity and doctrinal controversy Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.; 13. Puritans and the Church of England: historiography and ecclesiology Paul C. H. Lim; 14. Radical Puritanism, c.1558–1660 David R. Como; 15. Puritan millenarianism in old and New England Jeffrey K. Jue; 16. The Godly and popular culture Alexandra Walsham; 17. Puritanism and gender Ann Hughes; 18. Puritanism and literature N. H. Keeble; Part IV. Puritanism and Posterity: 19. Puritan legacies John Coffey; 20. The historiography of Puritanism Peter Lake.

'This is a particularly important volume that takes students beyond the traditional views of Puritanism to demonstrate its intense diversity.' The Historical Association