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William Perkins as Apologist for the Church of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2006

W. B. PATTERSON
W. B. PATTERSON
Affiliation:
Department of History, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee 37383, USA; e-mail: bpatters@sewanee.edu
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Abstract

William Perkins, usually described as an Elizabethan Puritan, was significant in ways that are only beginning to be recognised by historians. His writings, published in numerous editions in England and on the continent and translated into Latin and half a dozen vernacular languages, made him the most prominent English theologian of his day. This article contends that his career was devoted not to bringing about changes in the Established Church but to making that Church's teachings better known and appreciated. Perkins should be seen as a leading apologist for the Elizabethan Church of England.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 252 - 269
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This article is a revised version of a paper read at the North American Conference on British Studies, held in Baltimore, Maryland, 6–9 November 2002. I am grateful to Bryan D. Spinks, Dewey D. Wallace, Jr, and Jameela Lares for their helpful comments.