I was very pleased to be asked to contribute to this book which has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan:

Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World

The publishers describe the volume in these terms:

This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes focus on the fierce debates surrounding Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism that emerged from the Reformation and the lived cultures of these dissenting movements. The chapters take an interdisciplinary approach addressing ideas in context, their reception and appropriation, and the diverse and often conflicting visions of Christianity. Drawing on previously unused sources, many from Eastern Europe and often in inaccessible languages, this book challenges our understanding of dissent as marginal and eccentric and places it at the center of contesting convictions about the nature of religious reform.

The contents are as follows:

Introduction

The Porous Boundaries of Dissent

Bruce Gordon

Antitrinitarianism and Its Influence in Italy and Poland

Italian Antitrinitarianism and the Legitimacy of Dissent

Odile Panetta

Scripture, Piety, and Christian Community in the Thought of the Polish Brethren

Sarah Mortimer

Religiosity in the Ethos of Polish Brethren in Light of Funeral and Wedding Speeches from the Seventeenth Century

Maria Barłowska

True Heirs of Jan Łaski: Polish Brethren Church Discipline in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and During Their Exile in Transylvania

Kazimierz Bem

Transylvanian Unitarianism

The Late Confessionalization of the Transylvanian Unitarian Church and the Polish Brethren

Gizella Keserű

Introduction to the Transylvanian Unitarian Disciplina Ecclesiastica

Lehel Molnár

De Disciplina Ecclesiastica: On Ecclesiastical Discipline (1626)

Alexander Batson

The Term, Development, Purpose, and Practice of Church or Canonical Visitation: Unitarians in Háromszék in the Seventeenth Century Between Conventional Rhetoric and Reality

Lehel Molnár

Some Aspects of the Hungarian Unitarian Liturgy in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Sándor Kovács

Engagement and Divorce Cases Before the Unitarian Consistory in Seventeenth-Century Transylvania. Frameworks in Church Law and the Doctrine of Marriage

David Szigeti Molnar

England, Ireland, and New England

The Historical Critique of Heresiology in the Seventeenth Century and the Origins of John Milton’s Arianism

R. Bradley Holden, Samuel J. Loncar

Authority, Reason, and Anti-trinitarianism: John Abernethy and the Competing Pressures Within Irish Presbyterianism in the Early Eighteenth Century

A. D. G. Steers

The 1662 Book of Common Prayer and Its Adaptation in Eighteenth-Century Rational Dissent

Bryan Spinks

New England Congregationalists and Unitarianism in Late Eighteenth Century/Early Nineteenth Century

Peter Field

The editors are:

Kazimierz Bem, Pastor of First Church in Marlborough (UCC), USA and a senior lecturer in Church History at the Evangelical School of Theology in Wrocław, Poland.

Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School, USA.

  Hardcover ISBN978-3-031-69657-2

  Softcover ISBN978-3-031-69660-2

  eBook ISBN978-3-031-69658-9

You can find out more about this book via this link.