Radical religious groupings in the Republic
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- Created on: 03-06-15 19:42
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- RADICAL RELIGIOUS GROUPINGS IN THE REPUBLIC
- Fifth Monarchists
- belief in the imminent establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth
- not solely bible-led, but astrology led
- wanted a regime run exclusively by the 'saints' based on Daniel and Revelation
- their beliefs were not unusual, derived from millenarianism
- support in the army
- civil war and revolution strengthened the belief that they were coming to the end of days
- Thomas Harrison delcared Charles I 'Man of blood'
- Windsor Prayer Meeting
- regarded the rump as preventing godly rule
- CAPP: a pressure group that aimed at removing the Rump and establishing Godly rule
- Major General Thomas Harrison
- Ranters
- late 1640s
- from civil war and revolution
- believed in predestination and believed they could live life as they wanted
- denied that God existed indepdentantly, but could be found in nature (god is in everything)
- no Ranter work printed after 1650
- little evidence of organisation or a group apart from those who followed Laurence Clarkson or Thomas Webb
- lack of any defined movement at all
- Presbyterianism
- desired national structure in the church
- Scots hoped for enforcement of Presbyterianism in england after Solemn League and Convenant
- hopes of establishing this was weakened by emergence of army as a political force and support for independency
- Danzil Holles
- Independency
- each congregation was independent to decide practice for itself
- influenced by netherlands
- Fifth Monarchists
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