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John Coffey is an English historian.[1] He has written monographs on Samuel Rutherford and John Goodwin, and is Professor of early modern history at the University of Leicester. 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
Exodus and Liberation: Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. Oxford University Press 2014