Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?

Following in the footsteps of Peter Lake and David Como, this paper aims to show that the first decades of the seventeenth century, deemed to be a period during which the godly “turned inwards” and worked from within the Church, also saw the emergence of underground alternative movements such as ant...

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Main Author: Frédéric Herrmann
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2023-01-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/9877
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description Following in the footsteps of Peter Lake and David Como, this paper aims to show that the first decades of the seventeenth century, deemed to be a period during which the godly “turned inwards” and worked from within the Church, also saw the emergence of underground alternative movements such as antinomianism which grew out of the puritan mainstream. The case-study of the judaizing Traskites, who exhibited unorthodox soteriological beliefs and an internalising of the moral law as well as upholding the observance of Jewish ceremonial laws, raises the question of the continuities between mainstream and radical puritanism and shows the complexities characterising the identity-formation of puritanism.
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Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
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Angleterre jacobéenne
title Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
title_full Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
title_fullStr Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
title_full_unstemmed Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
title_short Antinomians, Ceremonialists, and Judaizers: on the Margins of Puritanism?
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