George Gifford and the Reformation of the Common Sort: Puritan Priorities in Elizabethan Religious Life

by Timothy Scott McGinnis

Book Overview

This careful study explores puritan attitudes through the life and works of Elizabethan minister George Gifford. He was on the front lines of religious controversies in a time when the English church was being shaped by Protestant evangelicals who felt compelled to carry their understanding of "true religion" to all corners of England. Known among themselves as "the godly" or "gospellers" and to their enemies as "puritans" or "precisionists," these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193111241X
• ISBN13: 9781931112413
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"