The unity of church and state challenged: Responses to Hooker from the restoration to the nineteenth-century age of reform

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-79

  Gascoigne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 61049219167     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.00027     Document Type: Review

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