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Polly R. Ha

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

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


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

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

“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