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Anglican, Puritan, and Sectarian in Empirical Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

C. John Sommerville
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One of the persisting problems in the religious history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England has been a question of taxonomy. Authors still puzzle over whether we should have a name for the moderate, conforming section of the Church of England, to distinguish it from those whom we call Puritans. Was there, in fact, an essential difference between those two groups? A second question is, How far to the “left” on the religious “continuum” can we go before Puritanism changes into something qualitatively different? This usually becomes the problem of whether the Quakers were the extreme fringe of Puritanism or something altogether different. This study will offer evidence, statistically expressed, that there were consistent and significant differences between these positions.

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Social Science History , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , Summer 1989 , pp. 109 - 135
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1989 

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