Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. List of abbreviations x
6. Introduction 1
7. I Ecclesio-political and liturgical contests 19
8. 1 Contests, contexts, and the boundaries of conformity in early modern England 21
9. 2 Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of Elizabethan puritan nonconformity 44
10. 3 Cathedrals, the Reformed, and the Elizabethan Church 71
11. 4 Sir Francis Hastings, Jacobean nonconformity, and the House of Commons, 1604–10 97
12. 5 Zachary Crofton, the Restoration Church of England, and the dilemmas of partial conformity, 1662–65 117
13. II Reformed conformist theology and ecclesiology 139
14. 6 Justifying faith and faith as a virtue in the theology of Richard Hooker 141
15. 7 The best religion? The revived ambitions of the Reformed conformist establishment, 1637–40 157
16. 8 The Reformed conformist tradition, 1640–62 179
17. 9 Edward Reynolds and the making of a presbyterian bishop 199
18. 10 The Reformed theology of Thomas Hobbes 222
19. 11 Reformed orthodoxy as conformity in the post-Restoration Church of England 245
20. Afterword 263
21. Index 271