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The early Stuart Church has always been the subject of controversy. In part this has been due to the reasons intrinsic to the subject and in part due to the perennial concern of historians with the origins of the Civil War. But where once scholarly attention was focused on an allegedly revolutionary or at least radical and radicalising puritanism, now the major object of discussion and study is an allegedly innovatory Arminianism.
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For background to the Laudian style see P. Lake, Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker (1988), esp. ch. 4; ‘Lancelot Andrewes, John Buckeridge and avant garde conformity at the court of James I’ in L. L. Peck (ed.) The Mental World of the Jacobean Court (Cambridge, 1991); K. Fincham, Prelate as Pastor (Oxford, 1990), esp. chs 7–8.
On the 1630s themselves there is surprisingly little of value. N. Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists (Oxford, 1987), ch. 8 is the best account. There is still much useful material in G. Addleshaw and F. Etchells, The Architectural Setting of Anglican Worship (1948) and G. Addleshaw, The High Church Tradition (1941). Also see Sears McGee, ‘William Laud and the Outward Face of Religion’ in R. DeMolen (ed.), Leaders of the Reformation (Susquehanna University Press, 1984). On the university avant garde see D. Hoyle, ‘A Commons Investigation of Arminianism and Popery at Cambridge on the eve of the civil war’ HJ, 29 (1986). For an outstanding study of a leading lay Laudian see I. Atherton, ‘Viscount Scudamore’s “Laudianism”; the religious practices of the first Viscount Scudamore’, HJ, 34 (1991). For other aspects of Laudian thought and activity during the 1630s see P. Lake, ‘The Laudians and the Argument from Authority’ in B. Y. Kunze and D. D. Brautigam (eds), Court, Country and Culture, (Rochester, N.Y., 1992) and Anthony Milton’s Catholic and reformed: the Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant thought, 1600–1640 (Cambridge, 1993).
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Lake, P. (1993). The Laudian Style: Order, Uniformity and the Pursuit of the Beauty of Holiness in the 1630s. In: Fincham, K. (eds) The Early Stuart Church, 1603–1642. Problems in Focus Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22771-6_8
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