Stephen Hosmer

Stephen Hosmer was a seventeenth-century English Puritan theologian whose works engaged with the spiritual crises and ecclesiastical controversies of the English Civil War and Interregnum periods. His treatise *A People Living in Appearance and Dying in Reality Considered* exemplifies the Puritan concern with distinguishing genuine faith from mere outward profession, a central preoccupation of Reformed theology during an era of religious and political upheaval. Hosmer's writings contributed to the broader Puritan discourse on the nature of true conversion and the marks of authentic Christian community in an age of doctrinal uncertainty.