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By Mortimer

ISBN-10: 0521517044

ISBN-13: 9780521517041

ISBN-10: 1107689392

ISBN-13: 9781107689398

This ebook offers an important rereading of political and ecclesiastical advancements throughout the English Revolution, via integrating them into broader ecu discussions approximately Christianity and civil society. Sarah Mortimer unearths the level to which those discussions have been formed through the writing of the Socinians, a really influential team of heterodox writers. She presents the 1st remedy of Socinianism in England for over fifty years, demonstrating the interaction among theological principles and political occasions during this interval in addition to the robust highbrow connections among England and Europe. Royalists used Socinian rules to shield royal authority and the episcopal Church of britain from either Parliamentarians and Thomas Hobbes. yet Socinianism was once additionally vigorously denounced and, after the Civil Wars, this assault on Socinianism was once crucial to efforts to construct a church lower than Cromwell and to supply toleration. the ultimate chapters supply a brand new account of the non secular payment of the 1650s.

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