Reason and Religion in the English Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780521517041 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 274 str.

Sarah Mortimer

Opis

Examines the reception of Socinian ideas in England, providing a rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution.

Recenzje

'All students of seventeenth-century English theology, history, and politics are indebted to Sarah Mortimer for a richly contextualized account of the widespread reception and utilization of a variety of Socinian ideas.' Martyn Cowan, Churchman

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The Socinian challenge to Protestant Christianity; 2. Socinianism in England and Europe; 3. The Great Tew Circle: Socinianism and scholarship; 4. Royalists, Socinianism and the English Civil War; 5. Socinianism and the Church of England; 6. Reason, religion and the doctrine of the Trinity; 7. Anti-trinitarianism, Socinianism and the limits of toleration; 8. Socinianism and the Cromwellian Church settlement; Conclusion: the legacy of Socinianism.