Book contents
- On Laudianism
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- On Laudianism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Laudianism: Where It Came From
- Part II Laudianism: What It Was
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Chapter 20 Order, Puritanism and the State of the English Church
- Chapter 21 Puritan ‘Privacy’, or the Forms of Puritan Voluntary Religion Anatomised
- Chapter 22 A Religion of the Word and the Question of Authority
- Chapter 23 Puritanism, Popularity and Politics
- Chapter 24 Of Moderate Puritans and Popular Prelates
- Chapter 25 The Puritan Threat, the Church of England and the Personal Rule as a Period of Reformation
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Conclusion
- Index
Chapter 20 - Order, Puritanism and the State of the English Church
from Part III - Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2023
- On Laudianism
- Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
- On Laudianism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Laudianism: Where It Came From
- Part II Laudianism: What It Was
- Part III Laudianism: What It Wasn’t
- Chapter 20 Order, Puritanism and the State of the English Church
- Chapter 21 Puritan ‘Privacy’, or the Forms of Puritan Voluntary Religion Anatomised
- Chapter 22 A Religion of the Word and the Question of Authority
- Chapter 23 Puritanism, Popularity and Politics
- Chapter 24 Of Moderate Puritans and Popular Prelates
- Chapter 25 The Puritan Threat, the Church of England and the Personal Rule as a Period of Reformation
- Part IV Laudianism and Predestination
- Part V Laudianism as Coalition: The Constituent Parts
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
This chapter lays out the Laudians’ view of what they took to be the currently deleterious physical and liturgical condition of the English church, which they attributed, in about equal part, to lay neglect and parsimony and puritan error. Having evoked the Laudian critique, the chapter then critically evaluates it, arguing that the Laudian account should not be taken as an accurate reflection of how things were but rather as a combination of anecdote and hyperbole, prompted, in part, by the Laudians’ own, very exalted, view of what true order should look like, and, in part, by the polemical demands of their situation and the intensity of their hatred for puritanism and all its works.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 259 - 265Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023