John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution: Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England

‘A major contribution to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University.

John Goodwin [1594-1665] was one of the most prolific and controversial writers of the English Revolution; his career illustrates some of the most important intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. Educated at Queens'College, Cambridge, he became vicar of a flagship Puritan parish in the City of London. During the 1640s, he wrote in defence of t...