W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

'This is a masterly study of the most widely known English theologian of the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and the reign of James I and VI.'

• Preface Introduction 1: The Unsettled Elizabethan Settlement 2: Apologist for the Church of England 3: Salvation and the Thirty-Nine Articles 4: Practical Divinity and the Role of Conscience 5: Biblical Preaching and English Prose 6: The Quest for Social Justice 7: Attacked and Defended 8: Legacy Conclusion Bibliography Index

W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

'This is a masterly study of the most widely known English theologian of the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and the reign of James I and VI.'

• Preface Introduction 1: The Unsettled Elizabethan Settlement 2: Apologist for the Church of England 3: Salvation and the Thirty-Nine Articles 4: Practical Divinity and the Role of Conscience 5: Biblical Preaching and English Prose 6: The Quest for Social Justice 7: Attacked and Defended 8: Legacy Conclusion Bibliography Index

W. B. Patterson, Professor of History (Emeritus) at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, has written widely on British and European history and religion. His publications include King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom (Cambridge University Press, 1997), which won the Albert C. Outler Prize in ecumenical church history from the American Society of Church History. He is an active member of the Ecclesiastical History Society of Great Britain and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

'This is a masterly study of the most widely known English theologian of the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I and the reign of James I and VI.'

• Preface Introduction 1: The Unsettled Elizabethan Settlement 2: Apologist for the Church of England 3: Salvation and the Thirty-Nine Articles 4: Practical Divinity and the Role of Conscience 5: Biblical Preaching and English Prose 6: The Quest for Social Justice 7: Attacked and Defended 8: Legacy Conclusion Bibliography Index