Releious Radicalism
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- Created on: 02-04-15 14:37
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- Religious Radicalism
- Independents
- thought people shouldn't be forced to attend a national Church
- spread throughout the army
- Cromwell was their patron
- Ranters
- nothing was a sin unless you believed you had sinned
- didn't have to abide by conventional morality
- opposed by most other sects
- didn't believe in heaven and hell
- rejected social ranks
- met in alehouses, swore, cavorted naked
- Blasphemy Act 1650 aimed at them
- Quakers
- high standards of morality
- everyone was to preach
- written word wasn't important, relied on inner light
- subversion of social order
- no Church organisation, informal
- Anabaptists
- rejected infant baptism
- Fifth Monarchists
- abolition of tithes and help for the poor
- believed the end of the world was coming and Jesus would return and become king
- popular with the New Model Army
- Muggletonians
- Christ's second coming
- The Diggers
- freedom from poverty, hunger and oppression
- plated food on common land
- Independents
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