Defining the Puritans (S1 E1)
An episode wherein Greg explores the identity and definition of the Puritans.
SHOW NOTES AND REFERENCES:
Ames, William. Conscience, with the Power and Cases Thereof. London, UK, 1639.
Beeke, Joel R., and Mark Jones. A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012.
Benge, Dustin W., and Nate Pickowicz. The American Puritans. Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2020.
Brooks, Thomas. “The Crown and Glory of Christianity,” The Complete Works of Thomas
Brooks. 6 vols. Edinburgh, UK: James Nichol, 1867.
Brown, John. The English Puritans. Fearn, UK: Christian Focus, 1998.
Coffey, John and Paul C. H. Lim, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Collinson, Patrick. “A Comment: Concerning the Name Puritan.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 31, no. 4 (October 1980): 483–88.
______. “Antipuritanism.” In The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism. Edited by John Coffee
and Paul C. H. Lim. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
______. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. London, UK: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
______. The Puritan Character: Polemics and Polarities in Early Seventeenth-Century English
Culture. Los Angeles, CA: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1989.
Cosby, Brian H. “Toward a Definition of ‘Puritan’ and ‘Puritanism’: A Study in Puritan Historiography.” Churchman 122, no. 4 (2008): 297–314.
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Fenner, William. The Souls Looking-Glasse, Lively Representing Its Estate before God: With a
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______. “Puritanism: the Problem of Definition.” In Studies in Church History Volume II:
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Haller, William. The Rise of Puritanism. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1938.
Knappen, M. M. Tudor Puritanism. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 1939.
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no. 1 (Winter 1992): 53-74.
______. A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life (Wheaton, IL:
Crossway, 2010.
Pederson, Randall J. Unity in Diversity: English Puritans and the Puritan Reformation, 1603-
1689. Brill’s Series in Church History 68. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic
Publishing, 2014.
Ryken, Leland. Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2010.
Sibbes, Richard. The Works of Richard Sibbes. 7 vols. Edinburgh, UK: Banner of Truth, 2001.
Spurr, John. English Puritanism: 1603-1689. Social History in Perspective. London, UK: MacMillan Press, 1998.
Vincent, Nathanael. Heaven upon Earth: or, A Discourse Concerning Conscience. London, UK:
for Thomas Parkhurst, 1676.
Winship, Michael P. “Defining Puritanism in Restoration England: Richard Baxter and Others Respond to ‘a Friendly Debate.’” The Historical Journal 54, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 689–715.
______. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 2018.
