Primitivism, Radicalism, and the Lamb's War: The Baptist-Quaker Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England

by T.L. Underwood and Ted Leroy Underwood

The mid-seventeenth century saw both the expansion of the Baptist sect and the rise and growth of Quakerism. At first, the Quaker movement attracted some Baptist converts, but relations between the two groups soon grew hostile. Public disputes broke out and each group denounced the other in polemical tracts. Nevertheless in this book, Underwood contends that Quakers and Baptists had much in common with each other, as well as with the broader Puritan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195108337
• ISBN13: 9780195108330
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"