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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

David R. Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 513. $65.00.
This is a marvelous and much-needed book: impressively researched, engaging and demanding, finely nuanced and robustly argued. At its heart is the recovery of what David R. Como sees as the antinomian "movement" of early seventeenth-century England. In the process he offers a reassessment of early Stuart Puritanism as more heterogeneous and engaged with some of its radical implications that has recently been allowed. Here Como takes issue with what he depicts, not altogether fairly, as Patrick Collinson's insistence on the innate conservatism of that Puritanism and Christopher Hill's segregation, along class lines, of Puritanism and the "radical underground." With the orthodoxies displaced, we can, Como argues, freshly appreciate the precursors and the context of New England's antinomian controversies of the later 1630s and begin to explain the explosive emergence of radical groups and ideas in England in the 1640s.	1
In this account, the survival of the antinomians is partly to be explained by their geographical triangulation among London, Suffolk, and the Pennine borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. When their goal was to challenge orthodox "legalism" in the early 1620s, antinomians could move to London, retreating to the provincial centers when repression was stepped up later in the decade. Between 1625 and 1629, a small core of antinomian dissenters was challenging the hegemony of mainstream godly preachers. After 1629, they faced systematic repression and by 1633 were lying low.	. . .

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