Church life : pastors, congregations, and the experience of dissent in seventeenth-century England / edited by Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page and Joel Halcomb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Gathered Church Life and the Experience of Dissent / Michael Davies, Anne Dunan-Page, and Joel Halcomb -- Godly Order and the Trumpet of Defiance: The Politics of Congregational Church Life during the English Revolution / Joel Halcomb -- Godly Pastors and their Congregations in Mid-Seventeenth-Century London / Elliot Vernon -- 'Letting a Room in London-House': A Place for Dissent in Civil War London / Kathleen Lynch -- God's Physicians: Models of Pastoral Care at the Westminster Assembly, 1643-1653 / Chad Van Dixhoorn -- The Freedom of Association and Ecclesiastical Independence / Polly Ha -- The Experience of Dissent: John Owen and Congregational Life in Revolutionary and Restoration England / Crawford Gribben -- The Reformed Pastor as Nonconformist: Richard Baxter After 1662 / N. H. Keeble / Print and Pastoral Identity: Presbyterian Pastors Negotiate the Restoration / Ann Hughes -- Life After Bunyan: Ebenezer Chandler and the Bedford Congregation, 1689-1710 / Michael Davies -- 'Not Keeping One's Place in the Church': The Disaffected Dissenters / Anne Dunan-Page.

This volume addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century.