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1609–1678
A seventeenth-century English religious writer, he spent much of his life in serious study and became known for thoughtful works defending Catholic ideas. His books were wide-ranging, learned, and deeply shaped by the religious arguments of his time.
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About the author
Born in Yorkshire around March 1609, Abraham Woodhead was educated at University College, Oxford, where he later became a fellow and served as proctor. He lived during a period of intense religious conflict in England, and his career was shaped by those disputes.
Woodhead is remembered as a prolific writer on Catholicism. After moving away from the Church of England, he devoted himself largely to study and writing, producing works on theology, church authority, and religious controversy. Later readers often described him as a careful, serious, and highly learned controversial writer.
He died at Hoxton, Middlesex, on May 4, 1678. Although he is not a household name today, his writing offers a vivid window into the religious debates of seventeenth-century England.