John Dury, reformer of education against the radical challenge

Abstract

I see not how Gods way to salvation can be said to be many John Dury has regularly featured in the religious and intellectual histories of the British seventeenth century in the last sixty years. His figure has mainly been constructed around three overlapping images: the irenic champion, the educational forerunner, and the utopian type of a Puritan ‘Great Instauration’. Studies focussed at first on his irenic mission to reconcile the Protestant churches throughout Europe. Then, following the ...