Originally published in 1988, this was the first full and scholarly account of the formal Elizabethan and Jacobean debates between Presbyterians and conformists concerning the government of the church.

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History, Professor of the History of Christianity, Divinity School; Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History at Vanderbilt University, USA.

1. What Was the Admonition Controversy About? 2. Presbyterian Tactics 3. Conformist Thought After Whitgift 4. Richard Hooker