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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, c. 1559-c. 1689

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, c.... BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume I: The Post- Reformation Era, c. 1559-c. 1689, edited by John Coffey, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 542 pp., £115.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198702238 ‘Confessional conflict drove erudition, just as war drives technological innovation’ (p. 379). In a similar manner, defining and tracing genealogies of Protestant dissent in early modern Europe and North America drives contributors to this first volume in the Oxford History of dissenting traditions to both erudition and innovation. The result is a comprehensive, wide-ranging, and highly variegated interrogation of what constitutes ‘dissent’ within the rapidly transforming confessional states and fissiparous Protestant communities and networks from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. The ambition of the collection, and the capacious ways in which dissent is understood, could cause a volume of this nature to unravel. However, John Coffey’s magisterial intro- duction provides a thorough historical, conceptual, and scholarly contextualisation that frames the four parts of the collection: traditions within England, traditions outside England, dissent and the world, congregations and living. The list of contributors includes some of the foremost scholars in the field, and these do not simply provide summaries of their respective topics, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Baptist Quarterly Taylor & Francis

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, c. 1559-c. 1689

Searle, Alison
Baptist Quarterly , Volume 54 (2): 2 – Apr 3, 2023
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© 2021 Alison Searle
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10.1080/0005576X.2021.2021646
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BAPTIST QUARTERLY BOOK REVIEW The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions Volume I: The Post- Reformation Era, c. 1559-c. 1689, edited by John Coffey, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, 542 pp., £115.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9780198702238 ‘Confessional conflict drove erudition, just as war drives technological innovation’ (p. 379). In a similar manner, defining and tracing genealogies of Protestant dissent in early modern Europe and North America drives contributors to this first volume in the Oxford History of dissenting traditions to both erudition and innovation. The result is a comprehensive, wide-ranging, and highly variegated interrogation of what constitutes ‘dissent’ within the rapidly transforming confessional states and fissiparous Protestant communities and networks from the mid-sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. The ambition of the collection, and the capacious ways in which dissent is understood, could cause a volume of this nature to unravel. However, John Coffey’s magisterial intro- duction provides a thorough historical, conceptual, and scholarly contextualisation that frames the four parts of the collection: traditions within England, traditions outside England, dissent and the world, congregations and living. The list of contributors includes some of the foremost scholars in the field, and these do not simply provide summaries of their respective topics,

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Published: Apr 3, 2023

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