July 2002

Department of History

Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200

850-644-9524 (o); 850-386-3656 (h)

rgreaves@mailer.fsu.edu

I. Personal

• Place of birth: Glendale, California Date of birth: 11 September 1938
• Marital status: Married (September 1959) Children: Two daughters (born 1967 and 1969)

• B.A. summa cum laude, Bethel College, Minnesota, 1960
• M.A. magna cum laude, Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, 1962
• Ph.D. University of London, 1964
• Major Professor, Dr. Geoffrey F. Nuttall
• Outside Examiner, Dr. Gordon Rupp, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge University
• Further graduate studies in European history, University of Missouri, 1965

• Associate Professor of History, Florida Memorial College, 1964-65
• Assistant Professor of History, William Woods College, 1965-66
• Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Washington State College, 1966-69
• Assistant Professor of Humanities, 1969-71; Associate Professor, 1971-72, Michigan State University (tenure)
• Associate Professor of History, Florida State University, 1972-75
• Professor of History, 1975-89, Florida State University (tenure)
• Visiting Scholar, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
• Professor, London Center, Florida State University, 1973
• Professor, Florence Center, Florida State University, 1983, 1987, 2003
• Courtesy Professor of Religion, Florida State University, 1985-95
• Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of History, Florida State University, 1989 to present
• Co-Director, Center for British and Irish Studies, Florida State University, 1991-92
• Chairman, Department of History, Florida State University, 1993-2002

• Merriam Park Scholarship, Bethel College, 1959-60
• Award for Academic Excellence, St. Paul, Minnesota, Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1960
• Salutatorian, Bethel College, Class of 1960
• Knights Templar Scholar, 1961-62
• Regents' Grant, University of Missouri, 1965
• Outstanding Young Men of America, 1966
• Elected Fellow, Royal Historical Society (U.K.), 1981
• Professorial Excellence Award, Florida State University, 1997

• Walter D. Love Memorial Prize, Conference on British Studies, 1970, for the best book on British history published in 1969 (The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought: Background for Reform, Rutgers University Press)
• Finalist, Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize, American Historical Association, 1981, for the best book on British history published between 1976 and 1981 (Society and Religion in Elizabethan England, University of Minnesota Press)
• Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History, American Society of Church History, 1996, for God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700

• Nominee for excellence in teaching award: Michigan State University, 1971
• Phi Alpha Theta Professor of the Year, Florida State University, 1980
• University Teaching Award, Florida State University, 1988
• Charter Member, President's Council for Excellence in College Teaching, Florida State University, 1990 to present
• Teaching Incentive Program Award, Florida State University, 1995

• Fellow, Royal Historical Society (elected, 1981)
• American Historical Association
• Morris D. Forkosch Award Committee, 1993-1997; Chair, 1995-1997
• Elected member, Research Division, January 1999-January 2002
• Research Division representative, Task Force on Graduate Education, 2000-2002
• American Society of Church History
• Elected Member, Council, 1982-1984
• Committee on Nominations and Personnel, 1985
• Chair, Committee on Research, 1985-1989 [This committee administered five major competitions: (1) the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for book-length manuscripts in church history; (2) the Sidney E. Mead Prize for article-length manuscripts; (3) the Philip Schaff Prize for published books in church history; (4) the Albert C. Outler Prize, for book length manuscripts in ecumenical history. (5) the Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize for article-length manuscripts dealing with the role of women in religious history.]
• President-Elect, 1990
• President, 1991
• Chair, Program Committee, Annual Meeting, 1991
• Committee to Review the Society's Prizes, 1989-1991
• Chair, Committee on Nominations and Personnel, 1992
• Committee for the Philip Schaff Prize, 1993
• Program Committee, Spring Meeting, 1998
• Program Policy Committee, 2001-4
• Baptist Historical Society (Great Britain)
• Carolinas Symposium on British Studies
• Membership Committee, 1983-1991
• Historians of Early Modern Europe
• North American Conference on British Studies
• Southern Conference on British Studies
• Nominating Committee, 1986
• Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
• American Subcommission, International Commission for Comparative Church History, 1990-1992
• International John Bunyan Society
• President, 1992-1995

• William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1966
• National Endowment for the Humanities, 1967
• American Council of Learned Societies, 1975-76
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (for primary use at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, U.C.L.A.), 1977
• Florida State University Foundation, 1979
• National Endowment for the Humanities Publication Grant, 1980
• Henry E. Huntington Library, 1981
• American Council of Learned Societies, 1983
• American Philosophical Society, 1987
• American Council of Learned Societies, 1987-88
• American Philosophical Society, 1993
• Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio (Italy) Center, 1998
• Guggenheim Fellow, 2000

Book Manuscripts:

• Blackwell Publishers, Oxford
• Brill, The Netherlands
• Harper and Row, Publishers
• Institute of Early American History and Culture
• Kent State University Press
• Mercer University Press
• Oxford University Press
• Rutgers University Press
• Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies Monograph Series, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
• Stanford University Press
• State University of New York Press
• University of California Press
• Yale University Press

• Albion
• American Historical Review
• Archive for Reformation History/Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
• Church History
• Historian
• Huntington Library Quarterly
• Journal of British Studies
• Journal of Ecclesiastical History
• Journal of Library History
• Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
• Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History
• Social Science History
• William and Mary Quarterly

• National Endowment for the Humanities
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, A Dictionary of Obituaries of Modern British Radicals, ed. Floyd D. Barrows and David B. Mock (New York and London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
• Member, Editorial Board, with Dale Hoak, Anne M. O'Donnell, and David C. Steinmetz, The Independent Works of William T yndale, 4 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press): Vol. 1, Earlier Exegetical Works, ed. John Day, Eric Lund, John A.R. Dick, Susan Schreiner, and Drew Clark; vol. 2, The Obedience of a Christian Man, ed. Anne M. Richardson and Donald D. Smeeton; vol. 3, An Answer to More's Dialogue, ed. Anne M. O'Donnell and Jared Wicks; vol. 4, Later Exegetical Works, ed. Donald D. Millus, Richard A. Muller, Stephen James Mayer, John Day, Eric Lund.
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Bunyan Studies: John Bunyan and His Times (Great Britain, 1988--)
• Member, Panel of Reference [Editorial Board], The Baptist Quarterly (Great Britain, 1989--)
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board for a special issue of Moreana to commemorate the work of William Tyndale, July 1991
• Member, Editorial Board, Albion (Journal of the North American Conference on British Studies, 1996--)

• Author of history questions for the Graduate Record Examination, 1982
• "The Magna Carta," WFSU Radio, Tallahassee, Florida, 14 Oct. 1983
• External Examiner, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English, University of Alberta (Edmonton), December, 1985
• External Examiner, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1992
• External Examiner, Ph.D. candidate, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1997
• Abstracter, Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, ABC-CLIO (1987-1996): for Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Irish Sword, Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, et al.

• Outstanding Young Men of America (1966)
• Contemporary Authors
• Who's Who in the South and Southwest
• Men of Achievement
• Directory of American Scholars
• Directory of International Biography, vol. 19 (1985)
• Personalities of America, 4th ed. (1985-86)
• International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, 1st ed.
• International Who's Who in Education, 1st ed. ff.
• Personalities of the South, vol. 13
• Who's Who in Society, 2nd ed. (1988)
• Who's Who in Florida (1988)

• Paper: John Knox and the Fate of Oikoumene in the Scottish Reformation," American Society of Church History, New York, December, 1971.
• Paper: "The Knoxian Paradox: Ecumenism and Nationalism in the Scottish Reformation," Scottish Church History Society, Edinburgh, 1972.
• Paper: "Traditionalism and the Seeds of Revolution in the Social Principles of the Geneva Bible," Conference on Puritanism in Old and New England, National Endowment for the Humanities, Thomas More College, Kentucky, 1975.
• Chair: "The Scottish Reformation," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, October-November, 1975.
• Chair: "English Puritanism," American Historical Association and American Society of Church History, joint session, Dallas, December, 1977.
• Paper: "Origins of English Sabbatarian Thought," National Conference on British Studies and Rocky Mountain Conference on British Studies, joint session, Phoenix, October, 1978.
• Paper: "The Radical Social Demands of Elizabethan Separatists," Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, October, 1979.
• Paper: "Bunyan Through the Centuries: Some Reflections," American Society of Church History, Washington, D.C., December, 1980.
• Paper: "John Bunyan and the Fifth Monarchists," Conference on British Studies, Pacific Coast Branch, University of California, Santa Barbara, March, 1981.
• Paper: "The Role of Women in Early English Dissent," American Society for Reformation Research and the XVIIth International Congress on Medieval Studies, joint session, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 1982.
• Comment: "Religious Biography in Seventeenth-Century England," American Society of Church History, Washington, D.C., December, 1982.
• Chair and Comment: "Revolution, English Style: Theory and Practice," Southern Historical Association, Charleston, South Carolina, November, 1983.
• Luncheon Address: "The Radical Underground in Britain in the 1660s: The Scope and the Sources," Huntington Library, San Marino, California, December, 1983.
• Comment: "The New Israel in Old England? Puritans on Sabbath and Covenant," American Society of Church History, San Francisco, December, 1983.
• Comment: "Theology and Science in the Seventeenth Century," American Society of Church History, Denver, March, 1984.
• Paper: "The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1672," American Historical Association, Chicago, December, 1984.
• Address: "The Radical Underground in Britain: The Clash of Religion and Politics in the 1660s," Christianity and the Renaissance Series, Center for the Humanities and the Arts, Florida State University, February, 1985.
• Address: "Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer," Episcopal Chapel of the Resurrection (Episcopal Student Center), Tallahassee, Florida, October 1985.
• Comment: "Discipline and Dissent in Early Modern Academe," National Conference on British Studies and Southern Conference on British Studies, Houston, November, 1985.
• Paper: "The Radicals and the Second Dutch War," Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Appahachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, October, 1986.
• Chair and Comment: "The Glorious Revolution Revisited," American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Francisco, August, 1988.
• Plenary Address: "John Bunyan: The Present State of Historical Scholarship," John Bunyan [International] Symposium, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, August, 1988. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinaire Onderzoeksprojectgroep Geschiedenis van het Protestantisme. [My participation was funded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences).]
• Plenary Address: "Amid the Holy War: Bunyan and the Ethic of Suffering," [International] Conference on Bunyan and His England, 1628-1688, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, September, 1988. [My participation was funded by the British Academy.]
• Chair: "Commonwealthmen," Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, October, 1988.
• Miriam Wilson Lecture: "The Calvinist Tradition, Radical Politics, and the Glorious Revolution," Presbyterian University Center, Tallahassee, Florida, February, 1989.
• Lecture: "The Nonconformist Tradition in Britain," Yale University Divinity School, December, 1989.
• Comment: "John Bunyan: A Tercentenary Commemoration," American Society of Church History, San Francisco, December, 1989.
• Address: "The Rye House Plot Revisited," British History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, May, 1990.
• Chair: "William Tyndale and Humanist Values," American Society of Church History, New York, December, 1990.
• Chair: Presidential Address of Timothy Smith, American Society of Church History, New York, December, 1990.
• Lecture: "The Quakers and the Restoration State," Department of Religion, Colloquium Series, Florida State University, February, 1991.
• Plenary Address: "Shattered Expectations? George Fox, the Quakers, and the Restoration State," [International] George Fox Tercentenary Conference, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, England, March, 1991.
• Paper: "The Radical Tradition in Britain, 1660-1689: A Retrospect," [International] Conference on Puritanism in Old and New England, the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania, April, 1991.
• Chair: Banquet Address, American Society of Church History, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1991: Patricia Derien, "Religious Faith, Human Rights, and Jimmy Carter."
• Paper: "A Retreat to the Tents? The Quakers and a Strategy of Constructive Engagement in the Restoration," Southern Conference on British Studies, Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1991.
• Chair: Presidential Forum: "Recent Research and Methodological Trends," American Society of Church History, Chicago, December, 1991.
• Presidential Address: "Radicals, Rights, and Revolution: British Nonconformity and Roots of the American Experience," American Society of Church History, Chicago, December, 1991.
• Banquet Address: "British Radicals and the United States Bill of Rights," Florida College Teachers of History, Pensacola, April, 1992.
• Comment: "Gynecocracy and Political Obedience in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England: New Perspectives," Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, October, 1992.
• Comment: "Reconsidering the Restoration in England, 1660-1688: The Anatomy of an Epoch," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December, 1992.
• Comment: "Richard Baxter: The Rational Ecumenist, or the Heresio-grapher and His Bugbears," in a session on "Liberal Puritanism and Richard Baxter," American Society of Church History, Washington, D.C., December, 1992.
• Plenary Address: "The Church of Ireland and the Nonconformist Challenge, 1660-1688," [International Conference] "Principle and Pragmatism: Towards a History of the Church of Ireland," University College, Dublin, April 1993.
• Address: "Dealing with Protestant Nonconformists in Ireland, 1660-1688," British History Seminar, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, May, 1993.
• Chair: "Companies, Clubs, Country Houses: Perspectives on Early Modern Institutions," Southern Conference on British Studies, Orlando, November 1993.
• R. Glen Eaves Lecture: "The Early Baptists: Radicals, Primitivists, or Reformers?" Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, October 1994.
• Comment: "Visions of Monarchy, Society, and the Church: Laud, More, and Voltaire," Western Conference on British Studies, Fayetteville, Arkansas, October 1994.
• Comment: "Nonconformity in Restoration England," Southern Conference on British Studies, Louisville, November 1994.
• Chair: "The Last War of Religion? Anglo-American Rebellions, the American Revolution, and the Language of Liberty," American Historical Association, Chicago, January 1995.
• Chair: "Radical Politics," International John Bunyan Society Conference, Edmonton and Banff, Alberta, Canada, September-October 1995.
• Plenary (Presidential) Address: "'Let Truth Be Free': John Bunyan and the Restoration Crisis of 1667- 73," International John Bunyan Society Conference, Edmonton and Banff, Alberta, Canada, September-October 1995.
• Plenary Address: "An Irish Odyssey: The Quest for Identity in an Alien Land," Western Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 1996.
• Phi Alpha Theta Address: "Murder So Foul: Restoration Radicals and the Royal Family," Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 1997.
• Paper: "Anthony Sharp and the Irish Quaker Community," Northeast Conference on British Studies, Dartmouth College, September 1997.
• Chair: "Responses to the Glorious Revolution," Joint Meeting of the Southern Conference on British Studies and the Carolinas Symposium on British Studies, Birmingham, November 1998.
• Comment: "Early Modern Spirituality," American Society of Church History, Boston, January 2001.
• Chair: "England's Troubles: The Recontextualization of the Stuart Era," American Historical Assoiation, San Francisco, San Francisco, 2002.

Scholarly Books

• John Bunyan. Abingdon, England: Sutton Courtney Press; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1969. (177 pp.)
• The Puritan Revolution and Educational Thought: Background for Reform. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1969. (ix + 188 pp.) Awarded the Walter D. Love Memorial Prize by the Conference on British Studies in 1970 for the best book on British history published in 1969.
• Theology and Revolution in the Scottish Reformation: Studies in the Thought of John Knox. Washington, D.C.: Christian University Press; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1980. (xi + 280 pp.)
• Society and Religion in Elizabethan England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981. (xiii + 925 pp.) Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A finalist for the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book on British history published between 1976 and 1981.
• Saints and Rebels: Seven Nonconformists in Stuart England. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1985. (xiv + 223 pp.)
• Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain,1660-1663. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. (x + 291 pp.)
• Enemies Under His Feet: Radicals and Nonconformists in Britain, 1664-1677. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. (xiii + 324 pp.)
• Secrets of the Kingdom: British Radicals from the Popish Plot to the Revolution of 1688-1689. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992. (xvii + 465 pp.)
• John Bunyan and English Nonconformity. London: Hambledon Press, 1992. (xiii + 230 pp.)
• God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660-1700. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. (xii + 472 pp.) Awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical Church History, American Society of Church History, 1996.
• Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
• Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

• An Annotated Bibliography of John Bunyan Studies. Bibliographia Tripotamopolitana, Number V. Pittsburgh: Clifford E. Barbour Library, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1972. (83 pp.)
• Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath & Co., 1974. (xvi + 197 pp.)
• The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan. Vol. 2. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. (xliv + 303 pp.)
• The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan. Vol. 8. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. (lv + 413 pp.)
• The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan. Vol. 9. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. (xlv + 365 pp.)
• With James Forrest. John Bunyan: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1982. (xix + 478 pp.)
• Co-editor, with Robert Zaller. Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 1. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1982. (xxxiv + 308 pp.)
• Co-editor, with Robert Zaller. Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 2. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1983. (xxvi + 287 pp.)
• Co-editor, with Robert Zaller. Biographical Dictionary of British Radicals in the Seventeenth Century. Vol. 3. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1984. (xxvi + 371 pp.)
• The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan. Vol. 11. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. (xliii + 231 pp.)
• Triumph Over Silence: Women in Protestant History. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1985. (xii + 295 pp.)

• With Philip Cannistraro, Rhoads Murphey, and Robert Zaller. Civilizations of the World: The Human Adventure. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. One, two, and three-volume editions. (xlvii + 1,083 pp.]
• Second edition, HarperCollins, 1993. (xlvii + 1,210 pp.)
• Third edition, Longman, 1997. (xvi + 1170 pp.)
• With Robert Zaller. Instructor's Manual. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. (iv + 203 pp.) Second edition, HarperCollins, 1993. Third edition, Longman, 1997.
• With Robert Zaller. Study Guide. 2 volumes. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. (vii + 268 pp.; v + 246 pp.) Second edition, HarperCollins, 1993. Third edition, Longman, 1997.
• With Robert Zaller and Jennifer Roberts. Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. One, two, and three volume editions, and a Renaissance-to-the-Present volume. (xlviii + 1,031 pp.)
• Second edition, Longman, 1997. (xxix + 954 pp.)
• With Robert Zaller. Instructor's Manual. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Second edition, Longman, 1997.
• With Robert Zaller. Study Guide. 2 vols. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Second edition, Longman, 1997.
• With Robert Zaller and Jennifer Roberts. Civilizations of the West: The Human Adventure. Abridged Version. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. One and two volume editions. (xxxii + 582 pp.)
• With Robert Zaller. Instructor's Manual. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• With Robert Zaller. Study Guide. 2 vols. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

• "The Nature of the Puritan Tradition." In Reformation, Conformity and Dissent, edited by R. Buick Knox, pp. 255-73. London: Epworth Press, 1977. (Festschrift for Geoffrey F. Nuttall)
• "Conscience, Liberty, and the Spirit: Bunyan and Nonconformity." In John Bunyan: Conventicle and Parnassus, Tercentenary Essays, edited by Neil Keeble. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988, pp. 21-43.
• "The Spirit and the Sword: Bunyan and the Stuart State." In Bunyan in Our Time, edited by Robert G. Collmer. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989, pp. 138-60.
• "Amid the Holy War: Bunyan and the Ethic of Suffering." In John Bunyan and His England, 1628-88, ed. Anne Laurence, W.R. Owens, and Stuart Sim. London: Hambledon Press, 1990, pp. 63-75.
• "John Bunyan: The Present State of Historical Scholarship." In Bunyan in England and Abroad, ed. M. van Os and G.J. Schutte. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990, pp. 29-43.
• "The Rye House Plotting, Nonconformist Clergy, and Calvin's Resistance Theory." In Later Calvinism: International Perspectives, ed. W. Fred Graham. Vol. XXII: Sixteenth Century Essays &Studies. Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1994, pp. 505-24.
• "'That's No Good Religion That Disturbs Government': The Church of Ireland and the Nonconformist Challenge, 1660-88." In As by Law Established: The Church of Ireland Since the Reformation, ed. Alan Ford, James McGuire, and Kenneth Milne. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1995, pp. 120-35, 251-57.
• "The 'Great Persecution' Reconsidered: The Irish Quakers and the Ethic of Suffering."  In Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England, ed. Muriel C. McClendon, Joseph P. Ward, and Michael MacDonald.  Stanfird, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999, pp. 211-33, 335-40.
• "Bunyan, the Shadow of Persecution, and the Power of Awakening Words."  In Awakening Words: Bunyan and the Language of Community, ed. David Gay, Arlette Zinck, and Gregory Randall.  Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
• "Bunyan and the Holy War."  In The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution, ed. Neil Keeble.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 268-85.
• "'That Kind of People': Late Stuart British Radicals and Their Manifestoes, a Functional Approach," in English Radicalism, 1550-1850, ed. Glenn Burgess and Matthew Festenstein.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

• "John Bunyan and the Authorship of 'Reprobation Asserted.'" The Baptist Quarterly 21 (July 1965): 126-31.
• "Luther's Doctrine of Grace." The Scottish Journal of Theology 18 (December 1965): 385-95.
• "John Bunyan and Covenant Thought in the Seventeenth Century." Church History 36 (November 1967): 151-69.
• "The Origins and Early Development of English Covenant Thought." The Historian 31 (November 1968): 21-35.
• "Music at Puritan Oxford." The Musical Times (London) (January 1969): 26.
• "Gerrard Winstanley and Educational Reform in Puritan England." British Journal of Educational Studies 17 (June 1969): 166-76.
• "Puritanism and Science: The Anatomy of a Controversy." Journal of the History of Ideas 30 (July-September 1969): 345-68.
• Reprinted in The Marrow of American Divinity: Select Articles on Colonial Religion, ed. Peter Charles Hoffer, early American History (New York and London: Garland, 1988).
• "The Early Quakers as Advocates of Educational Reform." Quaker History 58 (Spring 1970): 22-30.
• "The Ordination Controversy and the Spirit of Reform in Puritan England." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 21 (July 1970): 225-41.
• "William Sprigg and the Cromwellian Revolution." Huntington Library Quarterly 34 (February 1971): 99-113.
• "Francis Bampfield: Eccentric Hebraist and Humanitarian." Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 44 (Fall 1971): 224-28.
• "John Knox and the Covenant Tradition." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 24 (January 1973): 23-32.
• "The Knoxian Paradox: Ecumenism and Nationalism in the Scottish Reformation." Records of the Scottish Church History Society 18 (1973): 85-98.
• "A John Bunyan Signature." The Baptist Quarterly 25 (October 1974): 379.
• "John Knox, the Reformed Tradition, and the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper." Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte/ Archive for Reformation History 66 (1975): 238-55.
• "The Last Imprisonment of John Bunyan." Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire Life 5 (June 1975): 17.
• "John Bunyan's 'Holy War' and London Nonconformity." The Baptist Quarterly 26 (October 1975): 158-68.
• "The Organizational Response of Nonconformity to Repression and Indulgence: The Case of Bedfordshire." Church History 44 (December 1975): 472-84.
• "John Bunyan and Nonconformity in the Midlands and East Anglia." Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society 1 (April 1976): 186-96.
• "The Social Awareness of John Knox: The Problems of Poverty and Educational Reform." Renaissance and Reformation (Spring 1976): 36-48.
• "John Knox, the Reformed Tradition, and the Development of Resistance Theory." Journal of Modern History 48 (September 1976), demand article (35 pp.).
• "Traditionalism and the Seeds of Revolution in the Social Principles of the Geneva Bible." The Sixteenth Century Journal 7 (October 1976): 94-109.
• "Calvinism, Democracy, and the Political Thought of John Knox." Occasional Papers of the American Society for Reformation Research 1 (1977): 81-92.
• Reprinted in Calvinism in France, Netherlands, Scotland, and England, ed. Richard C. Gamble (Hamden, Conn.: Garland, 1993).
• "John Knox and the Ladies, or the Controversy over Gynecocracy." Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History 2 (Spring 1977): 6-16.
• "The Nature of Authority in the Writings of John Knox." Fides et Historia 10 (Spring 1978): 30-51.
• "Radical Social Demands in Elizabethan England: The Case of the Separatists." Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History 4 (Winter 1979): 106-21.
• "The Nature and Intellectual Milieu of the Political Principles in the Geneva Bible Marginalia." Journal of Church and State 22 (Spring 1980): 233-49.
• "The Tangled Careers of Two Stuart Radicals: Henry and Robert Danvers." The Baptist Quarterly 29 (January 1981): 32-43.
• "A Colonial Fifth Monarchist? John Clarke of Rhode Island." Rhode Island History 40 (May 1981): 41-47.
• "John Bunyan and the Fifth Monarchists." Albion 13 (Summer 1981): 83-95.
• "The Origins of English Sabbatarian Thought." The Sixteenth Century Journal 12 (Fall 1981): 19-34.
• "A Puritan Firebrand: Richard Culmer of Canterbury." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 50 (December 1981): 359-68.
• "Concepts of Political Obedience in Late Tudor England: Conflicting Perspectives." Journal of British Studies 22 (Fall 1982): 23-34.
• "John Bunyan Through the Centuries: Some Reflections." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature 64 (April 1983): 113-21.
• "The Role of Women in Early English Nonconformity." Church History 52 (September 1983): 299-311.
• "The Puritan-Nonconformist Tradition in England, 1560-1700: Historiographical Reflections," Albion 17 (Winter 1985): 450-86.
• "A Tinker's Dissent, a Pilgrim's Conscience," Christian History 5, no. 3 (1986): 8-13.
• "Puritans, Revolutionaries, and the Course of English History: The Work of Christopher Hill," Religious Studies Review 13 (January 1987): 24-29.
• "The Spirit and the Sword: Bunyan and the Stuart State," The Baptist Quarterly 32 (October 1988): 358-79. Reprinted from John Bunyan Today, ed. Robert Collmer (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1989).
• "John Bunyan and the Changing Face of Popery, 1665-1684," Bunyan Studies: John Bunyan and His Times No. 1 (Autumn 1988): 15-25.
• "Conventicles, Sedition, and the Toleration Act of 1689," Eighteenth-Century Life 12, n.s. (November 1988): 1-13.
• "John Bunyan: Tercentenary Reflections," American Baptist Quarterly 7 (December 1988): 496-508.
• "'To Be Found Faithful': The Nonconformist Tradition in England, 1660-1700," Bunyan Studies No. 4 (Spring 1991): 37-65.
• "Radicals, Rights, and Revolution: British Nonconformity and Roots of the American Experience," Church History 61 (June 1992): 151-68.
• "Shattered Expectations? George Fox, the Quakers, and the Restoration State, 1660-1685," Albion 24 (Summer 1992): 237-59.
• "Great Scott! The Restoration in Turmoil, or Restoration Crises and the Emergence of Party," Albion 25 (Winter 1993): 605-18.
• "'Let Truth Be Free': John Bunyan and the Restoration Crisis of 1667-1673," Albion 28 (Winter 1996): 587-605.
• "Bunyan's Doctrine of Predestination: A Historical Perspective," The Recorder (2000).
• "Seditious Sectaries or 'Sober and Useful Inhabitants'? Changing Conceptions of the Quakers in Early Modern Britain," Albion 33 (Spring 2001): 24-50.

• "John Knox." In The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. J.D. Douglas, pp. 570-71. Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan Press, 1974.
• "James Abercrombie"; "Lawrence Clarkson"; "William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth"; "John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont"; "John Goodwin"; "John Hall"; "William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington"; "Mary Hays"; "John Jebb"; "Catherine Macaulay"; "Richard Overton"; "Vavasor Powell"; "John Rogers"; "Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton"; "John Wildman"; "Helen Maria Williams." Encyclopedia Britannica (1984 edition).
• Revision of 424 entries on British personalities (1485-1800) for the Encyclopedia Britannica (1984 edition).
• "John Bunyan." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade. New York: The Free Press, 1986.
• "Mary, Queen of Scots," Book of Days 1987: An Encyclopedia of Information Sources on Historical Figures and Events, Keyed to Calendar Dates. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1986.
• "Elizabeth I," Book of Days 1988: An Encyclopedia of Information Sources on Historical Figures and Events, Keyed to Calendar Dates. Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 1988.
• "John Knox." In New Dictionary of Theology, ed. Sinclair B. Ferguson and David F. Wright. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1988.
• "Presbyterianism"; "Puritans"; "'Bill and Book'"; "Admonition Controversy." In Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, ed. Ronald Fritze. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.
• "Anne Boleyn"; "Earl of Bothwell"; "Edward VI"; "Gunpowder Plot"; "Sir John Hawkins"; "Henry VIII"; "Mary, Queen of Scots"; "Rye House Plot"; "House of Stuart"; "House of Tudor"; "William III"; "Thomas Cardinal Wolsey". In World Book Encyclopedia, 1994.
• "Charles I"; "Charles II"; "Sir Richard Grenville"; "Lady Jane Grey"; "Thomas Cardinal Wolsey". In World Book Encyclopedia, 1995.
• "Baptists"; "Church Courts"; "Congregationalism"; "Marprelate Tracts"; "Nonconformity"; "Separatists." In Encyclopedia of the Reformation, ed. Hans J. Hillerbrand, et al. 4 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
• "Fifth Monarchy Men"; "Presbyterianism"; and "The Rye House Plot." In Historical Dictionary of Stuart Britain, ed. Ronald Fritze and William B. Robison. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
• "John Bunyan." In Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski, and Eberhard Jüngel. 4th ed. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), forthcoming.
• "Puritanism." In Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. Paul F. Grendler. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
• Numerous entries for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.  In progress.

• Review: Joan Webber, The Eloquent "I": Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose, in The Churchman (England) (Summer 1969).
• Review: Eric Walker, William Dell: Master Puritan, in Church History (December 1971).
• Review: Leonard J. Trinterud, ed., Elizabethan Puritanism, in Church History (March 1972).
• Review: B.S. Capp, The Fifth Monarchy Men: Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Millenarianism, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History (January 1973).
• Review: W. Stanford Reid, Trumpeter of God: A Biography of John Knox, in Church History (June 1975).
• Review: Duncan Shaw, ed., John Knox: A Quartercentenary Reappraisal, in Church History (March 1976).
• Review: Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints, in The American Historical Review (October 1978).
• Review: Gerraint H. Jenkins, Literature, Religion and Society in Wales, 1660-1730, in The American Historical Review (December 1978).
• Review: Katherine Firth, The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reformation Britain, 1530-1645, in The American Historical Review (February 1980).
• Review: Edward Gregg, Queen Anne, in Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History (Winter 1980).
• Review: Margaret A. Howell and Charles F. Mullett, English Dissent, in The Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (March 1981).
• Review: Leland H. Carlson, Martin Marprelate, Gentleman: Master Job Throkmorton Laid Open in His Colors, in The American Historical Review (April 1982).
• Review: Graham Parry, The Golden Age Restor'd: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1603-1642, in Albion (1982).
• Review: Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., Puritans and Predestination: Grace in English Protestant Theology, 1525-1695, in The American Historical Review (April 1983).
• Review: John N. King, English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition, in Church History (March 1984).
• Review: Georgia B. Christopher, Milton and the Science of the Saints, in Church History (March 1984).
• Review: Alistair Fox: Thomas More: History & Providence, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion (March 1984).
• Review: Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer 1984).
• Review: Timothy George, John Robinson and the English Separatist Tradition, in Catholic Historical Review (July 1984).
• Review: Richard Bauman, Let Your Words Be Few: Symbolism of Speaking and Silence Among Seventeenth-Century Quakers, in Albion (Winter 1984).
• Review: Richard Strier, Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert's Poetry, in Church History (December l984).
• Review: Jonathan Goldberg, James I and the Politics of Literature: Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne, and Their Contemporaries, in Clio: Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History 14 (1984).
• Review: J.F. McGregor and B. Reay, eds., Radical Religion in the English Revolution, in Church History (September 1985).
• Review: Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Protestant Poetics and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric, in Church History (December 1985).
• Review: Robert Ashton, Reformation and Revolution, 1558-1660, in Catholic Historical Review (January 1986).
• Review: David L. Edwards, Christian England: From the Reformation to the Eighteenth Century, in Catholic Historical Review (January 1986).
• Review: David Zaret, The Heavenly Contract: Ideology and Organization in Pre-Revolutionary Puritanism, in Catholic Historical Review (January 1986).
• Review: Martine Watson Brownley, Clarendon and the Rhetoric of Historical Form, in Clio: Interdisciplinary Journal of Literature, History, Philosophy of History (Winter 1986).
• Review Essay: "Revolutionary Ideology in Stuart England: The Essays of Christopher Hill," Church History 56 (March 1987): 93-101.
• Review: John Morgan, Godly Learning: Puritan Attitudes Towards Reason, Learning, and Education, 1560-1640, in History of Education. (UK)
• Review: John von Rohr, The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought, in Journal of American History (1987).
• Review: J.C. Davis, Fear, Myth and History, in Church History (September 1988).
• Review: Jerome Friedman, Blasphemy, Immorality, and Anarchy: The Ranters and the English Revolution, in American Historical Review (October 1988).
• Review: Kenneth L. Parker, The English Sabbath: A Study of Doctrine and Discipline from the Reformation to the Civil War, in Catholic Historical Review (October 1988).
• Review: Peter Iver Kaufman, The "Polytyque Churche": Religion and Early Tudor Political Culture, 1485-1516, in Journal of Church and State (Winter 1988).
• Review: Peter Lake, Anglicans and Puritans? Presbyterianism and English Conformist Thought from Whitgift to Hooker, in Albion (Winter 1988).
• Review: Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., The Spirituality of the Later English Puritans, in Albion (Winter 1988).
• Review: Andrew Hopton, Abiezzer Coppe, Selected Writings, in Albion (Winter 1988).
• Review: Richard Cust, The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626-1628, in The Historian (May 1989).
• Review: Hugh Trevor-Roper, Catholics, Anglicans and Puritans: Seventeenth-Century Essays, in Religious Studies Review (July 1989).
• Review: Craig Horle, The Quakers and the English Legal System 1660-1688, in The Historian (August 1989).
• Review: N.H. Keeble, The Literary Culture of Nonconformity in Later Seventeenth-Century England, in Church History (September 1989).
• Review: J.T. Cliffe, Puritans in Conflict: The Puritan Gentry During and After the Civil Wars, in Albion (Spring 1990).
• Review: Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society, and Family Life in London, 1660-1730, in The History of Education Quarterly (Summer 1990).
• Review: Hugh Spurgin, Roger Williams and Puritan Radicalism in the English Separatist Tradition, in Catholic Historical Review (July 1990).
• Review: Nigel Smith, Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640-1660, in Religious Studies Review (October 1990).
• Review: Leo F. Solt, Church and State in Early Modern England, 1509-1640, in Catholic Historical Review (October 1990).
• Review: Joan S. Bennett, Reviving Liberty: Radical Christian Humanism in Milton's Great Poems, in Church History (December 1990).
• Review: John N. Wall, Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan, in Church History (March 1991).
• Review: Noel Henning Mayfield, Puritans and Regicide: Presbyterian-Independent Differences over the Trial and Execution of Charles (I) Stuart, in Church History (September 1991).
• Review: David Cressy, Bonfires and Bells: National Memory and the Protestant Calendar in Elizabethan and Stuart England, in Church History (September 1991).
• Review: Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, and Mark Goldie, eds., The Politics of Religion in Restoration England, in Religious Studies Review (October 1991).
• Review: Jacqueline Eales, Puritans and Roundheads, in The Historian (Autumn 1991).
• Review: John Spurr, The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689, in Albion (Fall 1992).
• Review: David Mulder, The Alchemy of Revolution: Gerrard Winstanley's Occultism and Seventeenth-Century English Communism, in Church History (March 1993).
• Review: Nicholas Von Maltzahn, Milton's History of Britain: Republican Historiography in the English Revolution, in The Historian (Summer 1993).
• Review: Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan L. Israel, and Nicholas Tyacke, eds., From Persecution to Toleration: The Glorious Revolution and Religion in England, in Religious Studies Review (October 1993).
• Review: David McKitterick, A History of Cambridge University Press, Volume 1: Printing and the Book Trade in Cambridge, 1534-1698 in The Historian (Autumn 1993).
• Review: Ann Hughes, The Causes of the English Civil War, in Sixteenth Century Journal (no. 3, 1993).
• Review: Aloysius P. Martinich, The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics, in Church History (December 1993).
• Review: R.C. Richardson, ed., Town and Countryside in the English Revolution, in The Historian (Spring 1994)
• Review: Peter Brock, The Quaker Peace Testimony, 1660 to 1914, in Religious Studies Review (April 1994).
• Review: Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft, and Perez Zagorin, eds., Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England, 1640-1700, in Religious Studies Review (April 1994).
• Review: Stephen R. Honeygosky, Milton's House of God: The Invisible and Visible Church, in Church History (September 1994).
• Review: Tim Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715, in The Journal of Modern History (December 1994).
• Review: H. Larry Ingle, First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation of Quakerism, in Albion (Winter 1994).
• Review: Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety 1550-1640, in Church History (March 1995).
• Review: Stephen Baskerville, Not Peace But a Swaord: The Political Theology of the English Revolution, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 1995).
• Review: Roger A. Mason, ed., John Knox, On Rebellion, in Church History (June 1995).
• Review: J.C.D. Clark, The Language of Liberty, 1660-1832: Political Discourse and Social Dynamics in the Anglo-American World, in Albion (July 1995).
• Review: David Underdown, Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century, in Church History (September 1995).
• Review: Amanda Shephard, Gender and Authority in Sixteenth-Century England: The Knox Debate, in Sixteenth Century Journal (Fall 1995).
• Review: Phil Kilroy, Protestant Dissent and Controversy in Ireland 1660-1714, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History (October 1995).
• Review: Bonnelyn Young Kunze, Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism, in American Historical Review (December 1995).
• Review: William Lamont, ed., Richard Baxter, A Holy Commonwealth, in Church History (December 1995).
• Review: Nigel Smith, Literature and Revolution in England 1640-1660, in Religious Studies Review (January 1996).
• Review: Alan Marshall, Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685, in Catholic Historical Review (January 1996).
• Review: Mark Knights, Politics and Opinion in Crisis, 1678-81, in Catholic Historical Review.
• Review: Barry Alan Shain, The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History (October 1996).
• Review: Frank Ardolino, Apocalypse and Armada: In Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, in Church History (December 1996).
• Review: Michael Mullett, John Bunyan in Context, in Church History (September 1997).
• Review: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life, in Church History (September 1997).
• Review: Bryan W. Ball, The Seventh-Day Men: Sabbatarians and Sabbatarianism in England and Wales, 1600-1800, in Religious Studies Review (October 1997).
• Review: Michael F. Graham, The Uses of Reform: "Godly Discipline" and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610, in American Historical Review (February 1998).
• Review: David Loades, John Foxe and the English Reformation, St. Andrews Studies Studies in Reformation History, in Church History (March 1998).
• Review: Leo Damrosch, The Sorrows of the Quaker Jesus: James Nayler and the Puritan Crackdown on the Free Spirit, in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Review: Tom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643, in Church History (June 1998).
• Review: Peter Marshall, ed., The Impact of the English Reformation, 1500-1640, in Church History (June 1998).
• Review: Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales, eds., The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700, in Religious Studies Review (July 1998).
• Review: Patricia Crawford, Women and Religion in England, 1500-1720, in Journal of Religion (July 1999).
• Review: Tony Claydon and Ian McBride, eds., Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland c. 1650-c. 1850, in The Historian.
• Review: W. B. Patterson, King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom, in The Journal of Religion (April 2000).
• Review: T. L. Underwood, Primitivism, Radicalisam, and the Lamb's War: The Baptist-Quaker Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England, in Seventeenth-Century News [Journal of the Milton Society of America] (Spring-Summer 2000).
• Review: Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England, in Albion.
• Review: Philip C. Almond, Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought, in Religious Studies Review (April 2001).
• Joint Review: Adrian Davies, The Quakers in English Society, 1655-1725, and T. L. Underwood, ed., The Acts of the Witnesses: The Autobiography of Lodowick Muggleton and Other Early Muggletonian Writings, in Albion.
• Review: Rosemary Moore, The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain, 1646-1666, in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Review: Mark R. Bell, Apocalypse How? Baptist Movements During the English Revolution, in Catholic Historical Review (July 2001).
• Review: Meredith Baldwin Weddle, Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century, in Albion.
• Review: Tim Cooper, Fear and Polemic in Seventeenth-Century England: Richard Baxter and Antinomianism, in Journal of Religious History.
• Review: Ken Farnhill, Guilds and the Parish Community in Late Medieval East Anglia, c. 1470-1550, in Church History.
• Review: Peter Lake, The Boxmaker's Revenge: 'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London, in Religious Studies Review.
• Review, J. C. Davis, Cromwell, in The Historian.
• Review: Simon Ditchfield, ed., Christianity and Community in the West: Essays for John Bossy, in Sixteenth Century Journal.
• Review: Alan Houston and Steve Pincus, eds., A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration, in Albion.