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- 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 21 - Puritan ‘Privacy’, or the Forms of Puritan Voluntary Religion Anatomised
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 summarises the Laudian critique of the main forms of puritan voluntary religion; forms which the Laudians regarded as subversive of the public rites and ordinances of the national church and the unity of the Christian community. The practices involved were the puritan cult of the sermon, and obsession with preaching, extempore preaching and prayer; sermon-gadding, the maintenance of lectureships and the keeping of conventicles, all of which were taken to be subversive of the public religious observances and the Christian community mandated and sustained by the national church. Indeed, they were regarded as being tantamount to separation.
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- On LaudianismPiety, Polemic and Politics During the Personal Rule of Charles I, pp. 266 - 287Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023