Much has been written about Christopher Marlowe and his religious affiliations or lack of them. Some of this has been based on particular interpretations of the external circumstances of his life and death. This thesis has re-evaluated his protestant education, and his early church background, to see if there are any indications of his rebelling against them, or whether he conformed to that Protestant teaching, and indeed promoted it in his work. The thesis then looks at the religious imagery, metaphors and language which were available to Marlowe in his Elizabethan context, in particular, at the structure which religion provided to describe the universe, and the mechanisms by which an individual might be guided through the earthly life, avoiding hell, and gaining heaven.