John Collinges

John Collinges (1623–1690) was an English Nonconformist minister and theologian whose devotional and polemical writings significantly shaped Puritan spirituality in the latter seventeenth century. His most notable work, *The Intercourses of Divine Love Betwixt Christ and His Church*, exemplifies the affective theology characteristic of Puritan piety, emphasizing the intimate mystical union between Christ and believers through meditative and experiential language. As a prominent ejected minister following the 1662 Act of Uniformity, Collinges contributed substantially to the intellectual and spiritual resistance of English Dissent during the Restoration period.