The Puritan Millennium: Literature & Theology, 1550-1682Four Courts Press, 2000 - 224 pages Gribben (Trinity College, Dublin) studies the context of the Puritan apocalyptic tradition in an effort to emphasize that eschatology was not something puritans studied so much as something in which they were involved... (from the introduction). He explores an alternative canon writers who were se |
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 7 |
The development of the puritan apocalypse | 26 |
The Marian exiles and the construction of the tradition | 57 |
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