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. Through his writings, Hosmer contributed to the broader Puritan project of pastoral theology and the examination of Christian assurance in an age of doctrinal uncertainty.