Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 24; pp. 131 - 134
• Main Author: Daniel, Robert W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2020
• Subjects: 17th century; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Case studies; Meetings; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Religion; Religious congregations; Religious organizations; Theology; Tolerance; United Kingdom > UK; England

Lynch uses this case study to tease out wider questions of how religious tolerance could be achieved through neighbourliness and community, to 'emphasize the confusions and discontinuities in Dissenting church formation at this time' (p. 65). A more 'vigorous disciplinarian' than...