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 Mark Goldie is an English historian and Professor of Intellectual History at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written on the English political theorist John Locke and is a member of the Early Modern History and Political Thought and Intellec ...

at Churchill College, 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 , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_labe ...

. since 1999, serving as Head of History from 2013 to 2016. He has written monographs on

Samuel Rutherford Samuel Rutherford (also Rutherfurd or Rutherfoord; – 29 March 1661) was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor and theologian who wrote widely read letters, sermons, devotional and scholastic works. As a political theorist, he is known for "L ...

and

John Goodwin John Goodwin may refer to: Politicians *John Goodwin (Parliamentarian) (1603–1674), Member of Parliament for Reigate * John B. Goodwin (1850–1921), Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1880s *John Noble Goodwin (1824–1887), 1st Governor of ...

and was an editor on the critical edition of Richard Baxter's ''Reliquiae Baxterianae''. His ''Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689'' is the first overview work on the topic since W. K. Jordan's four-volume work ''The Development of Religious Toleration in England'' (1932–1940).

Recent publications

*''Politics, Religion and the British Revolutions: The Mind of Samuel Rutherford'', Cambridge University Press, 1997 *''Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558–1689'', 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

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