In Defense of Elizabethan Anglicanism: The Virginia Company of London

When observing the origins of the Virginia Company, historians tend to underappreciate the significance that Anglicanism had for the Company’s endeavors. The Virginia Company was a platform for contemporary writers like Edwin Sandys, Nicholas Ferrar, and John Donne to shape what they considered to be a never-before-seen comprehensive form of Anglicanism which had only been suggested in theory in the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559. What is more, Jamestown served a diverse group of European Christians and established Virginia as a religious polity in the New World while religious wars continued to plague the Old World.Bachelor of Art