TY - BOOK ID - 86364742 TI - England's second Reformation : the battle for the Church of England, 1625-1662 PY - 2021 SN - 1108164757 1108174108 1108169309 1107196450 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church of England KW - History KW - England KW - Church history KW - Anglican Church KW - Anglikanskai︠a︡ t︠s︡erkovʹ KW - Ecclesia Anglicana KW - Kirche von England KW - United Church of England and Ireland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86364742 AB - England's Second Reformation reassesses the religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England, situating them within the broader history of the Church of England and its earlier Reformations. Rather than seeing the Civil War years as a destructive aberration, Anthony Milton demonstrates how they were integral to (and indeed the climax of) the Church of England's early history. All religious groups - parliamentarian and royalist alike - envisaged changes to the pre-war church, and all were forced to adapt their religious ideas and practices in response to the tumultuous events. Similarly, all saw themselves and their preferred reforms as standing in continuity with the Church's earlier history. By viewing this as a revolutionary 'second Reformation', which necessarily involved everyone and forced them to reconsider what the established church was and how its past should be understood, Milton presents a compelling case for rethinking England's religious history. ER -