Download or read book On Laudianism written by Peter Lake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define 'Anglicanism' ever since.