Rebuilding the Temple: James Pilkington, Aggeus and Early
Elizabethan Puritanism.
Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 60 (4):
689 - 707 (2009)Abstract
This article examines the development of Protestant thought in
early Elizabethan England by analysing James Pilkington's 1560 commentary
on the Old Testament book of Aggeus (Haggai ). Pilkington's commentary
contained ideas about the Church and its reform that had deep affinities
with radical Marian Protestant thought about purity, separation and
resistance to ungodly monarchs. The way in which Pilkington transformed
these ideas in a time of Protestant political ascendancy provides valuable
insights into the nature and development of English Puritanism. ABSTRACT
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