A corrective to the much-discussed Victorian `crisis of faith', this study focuses upon several prominent individuals who experienced a `crisis of doubt' and made the reverse journey, abandoning secularism to defend Christianity.
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Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism. They refused to compromise their beliefs or conform to Anglicanism and as a consequence they died in 1593 - martyrs for their beliefs in English Congregationalism.
Elliot Rose's aim in this book is to look at the religious troubles of the Elizabethan age from the point of view of those who were not anxious to be martyrs.