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About the Author
Stephen Hampton read Law at Cambridge and Theology at Oxford and was ordained as a priest in the Church of England in 1997. He was appointed Chaplain of Exeter College, Oxford in 1998, where he undertook his doctoral research. In 2003, he became Senior Tutor of St John's College, Durham. Since 2007, he has served as Dean of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is the author of Anti-Arminians: the Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I. He has since focused his research on the Early Stuart Church, publishing a number of articles with the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, the Journal of Theological Studies, The Seventeenth Century and the Calvin Theological Journal.
Reviews
With forensic elegance, Stephen Hampton's sharply-focused study not only enriches our understanding of the early Stuart Church of England, but also makes a major contribution to understanding of the Reformed Protestant tradition across Europe. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor Emeritus of the History of the Church, University of Oxford *
Grace and Conformity debunks lingering caricatures of conformity. Hampton stretches our view of the Church of England and the Reformed tradition. He realigns the configuration of ecclesiastical and theological developments in pre-Civil-War England. No longer can we assume that robust defenses of episcopacy and the Church of England's liturgy were mutually exclusive with Reformed soteriology. * Polly Ha, Associate Professor, Duke Divinity School *
This splendid book fills a yawning gap in current scholarship on religion in early Stuart England. It is the first sustained and theologically-informed investigation of the mainstream 'Calvinist conformist' (or 'Reformed conformist' as is preferred here) position - in theology, piety and ecclesiology * and is a triumph of original and penetrating scholarship. It is exemplary in the care, erudition, clarity and precision of its analysis and should be required reading for anyone working on the early Stuart church and on English Protestantism more broadly. The positions so skillfully delineated in this study should become a basic point of reference for all future historians who seek to understand and categorize the ideas of any early modern English divine.Anthony Milton, Professor of History, The University of Sheffield *
Hampton's Grace and Conformity is a must-read for all historians of post- Reformation Reformed theology and early modern English religion, and has paved the way for further study of the featured individual theologians as well as various other affiliates of the now much better understood Reformed conformist tradition. * Jake Griesel, Journal Of Ecclesiastical History *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190084332
Author Stephen Hampton
Format Hardback
Page Count 424
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 739g
Dimensions(mm) 152mm * 239mm * 33mm