Abstract

Religious Dissent in England

This article provides information on the book "The Early English Dissenters in the Light of Recent Research, (1550-1641)," by Champlain Burrage. Burrage now attempts an extended treatment of the whole subject of English Dissent of which the present book is the first installment. After demonstrating that separatism did not rise from English Anabaptists, Burrage traces with a wealth of personal and bibliographical detail, the history of the leaders and their congregations from 1567 to 1641. Burrage has dealt, however, with only those parts of separatist history before 1641 which he felt had not been adequately treated already. He also limits his bibliography to works written by Baptists and Congregationalists, and seems to have confined his researches pretty closely to a study of the source material provided by the separatists themselves.