This groundbreaking study offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. Examining published works and previously unexplored archival material, Sarah Apetrei shows the transformative role that women played in religious reform during the period.

Sarah Apetrei is Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Theology and Religion. Since 2011, she has taught, lectured, and supervised at Oxford in the area of early modern religious history. Her research focuses on early modern mysticism and the relationship between visionary religion and reforming ideas about gender relations. She has published widely on early modern women's religious writing, debates about sexuality and celibacy, mystical theology and its reception, and visionary radicalism in seventeenth-century Britain.

• List of Illustrations


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1: Incarnation


• 2: Salvation


• 3: Revelation


• 4: Grace and Sin


• 5: Song


• 6: Church


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index