John Coffey (historian)

John Coffey is a British historian who works on religion, politics and ideas in the Protestant Atlantic world, c. 1600-1850. He studied History at Cambridge and completed a PhD under the supervision of Mark Goldie at Churchill College, Cambridge, where he held a Junior Research Fellowship, before taking up a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College London. He has taught the University of Leicester. since 1999, serving as Head of History from 2013 to 2016.[1] He has written monographs on Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin and was an editor on the critical edition of Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae. His Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558โ€“1689 is the first overview work on the topic since W. K. Jordan's four-volume work The Development of Religious Toleration in England (1932โ€“1940).[2]

Recent publications

  • Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford, Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558โ€“1689, Longman, 2000
  • John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution, Boydell and Brewer, 2006
  • The Cambridge Companion to Puritanism, ed. John Coffey and Paul C-H. Lim, Cambridge University Press, 2008
  • Seeing Things their Way: Intellectual History and the Return of Religion, ed. Alister Chapman, John Coffey and Brad Gregory, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009
  • Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr., Oxford University Press 2014
  • Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in Britain and Ireland, 1690-1850, ed. John Coffey, Oxford University Press, 2016
  • Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Britain, ed. Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall, Boydell, 2019
  • The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, vol. I: The Post-Reformation Era, c.1559-1689, ed. John Coffey, Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Reliquiae Baxterianae, ed. N. H. Keeble, John Coffey, Tim Cooper, and Tom Charlton, 5 vols, Oxford University Press, 2020

References

  1. "Professor John Coffey". Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  2. "John Coffey | People | University of Leicester". le.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 November 2022.


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