Thomas Granger, who spent most of his life as the vicar of Butterwick, Lincolnshire, during the reign of James I, wrote the first comprehensive English treatise on Ramist logic for preachers: Syntagma logicum, or The Divine Logike (1620). Granger is a noteworthy figure in the spread of Ramism in England not only because he codified principles for using Ramist logic in religious thought but also because he was, as Walter J. Ong has observed, "an exceptionally urbane and competent Ramist": he had thoroughly assimilated the ideas of the sixteenth-century French thinker Pierre de La Ramée (known in Latin as Petrus Ramus) and his followers, and he demonstrated considerable imagination and insight in his own adaptation of their work. Ramus's influence is also evident in Granger's religious writings, which reveal him to be not only a preacher interested in logic but a Puritan who believed the simplified logic...