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The article shows that poet John Milton and theologian John Owen remained hostile to one another across the duration of their careers and did not exercise any kind of positive mutual influence. Topics discussed include Milton and Owen's spiritual biography, Owen's rejection of the theological ideas of Milton, and Milton's experimentation with unorthodox doctrines. Also mentioned are Milton's "Paradise Lost," Owen's interest in angelology, and his admiration of Milton's achievements.

The article focuses on presbyterian William Bagshawe and his role as one of the most significant of the English Puritan pastors. It mentions that Puritan lawyer John Winthrop was not a devoted diarist and did not leave historians a detailed journal of his daily activities. It also reflects on his dedication within the concept of a covenanted church.

This article reads John Knox's The Historie of the Reformation (1587; 1644) in relation to contemporary debates about language, theology and nation. Recent discussions about the emergence of 'British-ness' in the early modern period have focused on the relation between emerging nationalisms and the Protestant Reformation. In Scottish Studies, particularly, scholars have pointed to an essential link between Protestantism, Anglicisation and the Anglo-Scottish unions of 1603 and 1707. Knox has been dismissed as a catalyst for the erosion of Scotland's traditional literary cultures. But recent scholarship has increasingly emphasized Knox's importance as a literary figure. This article demonstrates that Knox's Protestant historiography was much more complex than many discussions suggest. Knox's Historie deliberately fashioned its author and his several political nations in the language of Scotland's traditional 'other'. Against the grain of scholarship on Knox, and a great deal of writing on early modern nationalisms, it concludes that Knox constructed a 'Scotland' that was broad enough to include Catholics and those pursuing Anglicisation at the same time as it constructed a 'Britain' that was essentially and exclusively Protestant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses Scottish calvinism and literary theory in relation to the works of author James Hogg. Background on the Marrow Controversy involving the Church of Scotland; Novel written by Hogg to defend Ettrick theology; Information on Hogg's novel "Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."