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Polly R. Ha

Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
Divinity School
0044A Langford Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Reformed Government Puritanism, Historical Contingency, and Ecclesiatical Politics in Late Elizabethan England

Book · 2022 This critical edition of the scribal publication 'Reformed Government' c. 1594 provides a unique point of entry into the 1590s. ... Cite

The Freedom of Association and Ecclesiastical Independence, c. 1640-1660

Chapter · May 16, 2019 They draw on a broad range of printed and archival materials: from the minutes of the Westminster Assembly to the manuscript church books of early Dissenting congregations. ... Cite

The Puritans on Independence The First Examination, Defence, and Second Examination

Book · 2017 A scholarly edition of a set of manuscripts which reveal the political and ecclesiastical views of the Puritans in the period between their official suppression by the crown in 1592 and their sudden resurgence around the time of the English ... ... Cite

Religious Toleration and Ecclesiastical Independence in Revolutionary Britain, Bermuda and the Bahamas

Journal Article Church History · December 2015 By the mid-seventeenth century, radical protestant tolerationists in Britain and the British Atlantic began to conceive of religious liberty as a civil liberty applicable to all subjects, in contrast to contemporary puritans who limited toleration ... Full text Cite

Godly Globalisation: Calvinism in Bermuda

Journal Article The Journal of Ecclesiastical History · July 2015 This article explores the reception of the European Protestant Reformation in the British Atlantic using the early Bermudan Church as a case study. It offers an alternative model for Puritan colonisation which was driven by a reformed vision for go ... Full text Cite

The Freedom of Consent and Ecclesiastical Independence

Chapter · 2013 These volumes provide materials for thinking in fresh ways not merely about the concept of freedom, but how it has come to be understood in our own time. ... Cite

English Presbyterianism, 1590–1640

Journal Article Renaissance and Reformation · November 19, 2012 Full text Cite

English Presbyterianism, 1590–1640

Journal Article Renaissance and Reformation · November 19, 2012 Full text Cite

Puritan Conciliarism: Why Walter Travers Read Bullinger's "De Conciliis"

Journal Article The Sixteenth Century Journal · March 1, 2011 Full text Cite

The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain

Book · December 9, 2010 This volume explores the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in Britain. ... Cite

Reorienting English Protestantism

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Link to item Cite

“Discovering Orthodoxy: Revisiting the Purpose and Impact of the Synod of Dort”

Journal Article A Landmark in Turbulent Times: The Meaning and Relevance of the Synod of Dordt Theology (1618-1619), Cite

Presbyterians in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England

Journal Article The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Vol I: Beginnings to the Toleration Act Cite