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The Church of England, the Nonconformists and Reason: Another Restoration Controversy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2017

CHRISTOPHER HAIGH*
Affiliation:
Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP; e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

This paper (a companion to an article published this Journal lxvii [2016]) considers a twelve-year campaign by some Church of England clergy to discredit Nonconformists as irrational enthusiasts. It began in 1668–9, to discourage concessions to Nonconformists through ‘comprehension’ and to prove the loyalty of men suspected of lukewarm attachment to the Church. Congregationalists responded by accusing the conformists of Socinianism. But Presbyterians were less willing to differ from churchmen, and claimed that orthodox Protestants did not disagree about reason. Any differences were exaggerated for polemical advantage, and the controversy drove conformists and Nonconformists further apart.

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