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	Low church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When the term was first used, it referred to the latitudinarians.
		However, this usage went dormant by the middle of the 18th century, when latitudinarians began to be called "Broad church".
		When it was revived in the middle of the 19th century, it was used to refer to the Evangelical movement in England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Low_church (255 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660-1700 - W. M. Spellman - Hardcover
		The Latitudinarians and the Church of England, 1660-1700 reexamines the religious thought of a group of important divines within the Church of England from the Restoration of 1660 until the emergence of Deism and the beginning of the Enlightenment in the late 1690s.
		The Latitudinarians were so named by contemporary critics for their willingness to accept the political and religious changes imposed during the Interregnum, a period of extremely factious religious debate.
		Argues that Latitudinarians were not the precursors of the Deists and rational religion of a generation later, as is generally thought, but were merely seeking a more reasonable faith and a more comprehensive Church of England in the context of civil war, sectarian violence, and the resurgence of academic skepticism.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=376Q69DMTH&btob=&isbn=0820314293&itm=8 (390 words)

	David Hume -- Writings on Religion [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Latitudinarianism - a movement within the Church of England - advocated religious toleration and attempted to hold a middle ground between religious dogmatism and scepticism.
		Although they were believers in biblical miracles, Latitudinarians such as John Tillotson (1730-1694) and Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699) established criteria for distinguishing true miracles from false ones, particularly alleged miracles within the Catholic tradition.
		Whereas Latitudinarians tried to distinguish the Gospel miracles from Catholic ones, deists such as Thomas Chubb (1679-1747) often blurred the distinction.
	www.iep.utm.edu /h/humereli.htm (4187 words)

	Henry More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		While at Eton, he reacted against the strict Calvinism of his father, and he subsequently came to be regarded as the inspiration of the broad-church movement known as latitudinarianism.
		At home his intellectual legacy is most obvious in the tolerant theology of the latitudinarians of the Church of England.
		His philosophical legacy is harder to trace, not least because those on whom he had greatest impact were original minds whose thinking developed in different directions from his.
	www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/more.htm (2506 words)

	LATITUDINARIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Latitudinarians A sect of divines in the time of Charles II., opposed both to the High Church party and to the Puritans.
		The term is now applied to those persons who hold very loose views of Divine inspiration and what are called orthodox doctrines.
		"LATITUDINARIANS" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /La/Latitudinarians.html (321 words)

	"The Origins of Modern Attacks on Biblical Authority" by Samuel T. Logan, Jr.
		The legalistic relationship to God was not done away with even by the coming of Jesus Christ, since the forgiveness gained through Christ relates only to past sins, whereas, from now on ("for the rest of our time") obedience to the law is once again required of all Christians.
		One early expression of Latitudinarianism proper was Edward Stillingfleet's Irenicum (1659).
		Reducing dogma to the minimum and thus allowing "latitude" in other matters and using the Bible as an ethical source book were clear hallmarks of Latitudinarianism and thus identify Locke as a member of that camp.
	www.biblicalstudies.org.uk /article_authority_logan.html (8325 words)

	Latitudinarians(The 18th century) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a result, moves on the part of the lower house to censure the liberal opinions of the Latitudinarians were frustrated by the upper house.
		The earliest use of "Latitudinarian" was in 1670 and was thought to refer to moderate divines of the Church of England who defended a rational and moral approach to Christianity.
		The Latitudinarians by no means rejected traditional Christian doctrine, but their emphasis was upon the moral life - so much so that it often seems as though the afterlife is little more than a sanction for our duties in this life.
	www.st-petersweb.org /lesson18.html (5693 words)

	Philosophy, Science, and Religion in England 1640—1700 - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Latitudinarians, Neoplatonists, and the Ancient Wisdom Joseph M. Levine; 5.
		Latitudinarianism and toleration: Historical myth versus political history Richard Ashcraft; 8.
		Latitudinarianism and the ‘ideology’ of the early Royal Society: Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667) reconsidered Michael Hunter; 10.
	www.cambridge.org /0521410959 (366 words)

	The King George III Collection - Science And Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the eighteenth century, students had to subscribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of religion of the Church of England in order to be admitted to Oxford or Cambridge and most graduates went on to become clergymen.
		The new science was to have a mixed relationship with the religious authority but the ideas associated with Newton and his followers fitted neatly with the thinking of one section of the Church of England: the latitudinarians, who held moderate and tolerant views.
		Newton was made Master of the Mint and President of the Royal Society in 1703, becoming the most influential scientific figure in Britain until his death in 1727.
	www.sciencemuseum.org.uk /collections/exhiblets/george3/religion.asp (160 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: latitudinarian
		More was nothing like his supposed example, the gently latitudinarian Cicero, for instance: Cicero's philosophical and religious dialogues (as opposed to his legal and political speeches, of course) often read as if he delighted in being contradicted, while More's are spittingly conclusive.
		the optimism preached in England by latitudinarians trying to soften the Puritan concepts of an inscrutable, cruel God and an abject, fallen humanity.
		Latitudinarian comes from Latin latitudo, latitudin-, "latitude" (from latus, "broad, wide") + the suffix -arian.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/02/12.html (164 words)

	Are Creeds and Confessions Devisive? \| The Reformed Reader
		If the occupants of those pulpits had it for their distinct and main object to render their hearers indifferent about understanding, and, of course, indifferent about studying the fundamental doctrines of the gospel they could scarcely adopt a plan more directly calculated to attain their end than that which they actually pursue.
		Soon, however was the melancholy fact gradually unfolded, that disaffection to the doctrines which they once appeared to love had more influence in directing their course than even trey themselves imagined, and that they were receding further and further from the 'good way" in which they formerly seemed to rejoice.
		Truly that cause is of a most suspicious character to which latitudinarians and heretics, at least in modern times, almost as a matter of course, yield their support and which they defend with a zeal in general, strictly proportioned to their hatred of orthodoxy!
	www.reformedreader.org /rbb/reisinger/goodnews02.htm (3220 words)

	Isaac Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, the ordered and dynamically informed universe could be understood, and must be understood, by an active reason, but this universe, to be perfect and ordained, had to be regular.
		Newton and Robert Boyle’s mechanical philosophy was promoted by rationalist pamphleteers as a viable alternative to the pantheists and enthusiasts, and was accepted hesitantly by orthodox preachers as well as dissident preachers like the latitudinarians.
		On the other hand, latitudinarian and Newtonian ideas taken too far resulted in the millenarians, a religious faction dedicated to the concept of a mechanical universe, but finding in it the same enthusiasm and mysticism that the Enlightenment had fought so hard to extinguish.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Newton (4432 words)

	Craik - Life of Swift
		There are three other tracts, belonging to the same period in his life, which all show the same attitude of anger towards that complacent and superficial latitudinarianism which he now identified with the Whigs and with their ecclesiastical allies.
		It was at this juncture in Swift's life that the Government, whose supremacy was already a good deal shaken by the tediousness of a war that seemed to be pursued much more for the interests of the Allies than for that of England, gave an advantage to their opponents by a signal act of folly.
		But while in certain aspects this contemptuous and impatient dogmatism, which scorned even to listen to doubts or to waste time on speculation, brought Swift near to the affected and formal orthodoxy of those whom I have named, yet there was another side, on which his religious feeling was far different from theirs.
	www.jaffebros.com /lee/gulliver/biography/craik.html (10513 words)

	Edward Fowler -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1691 he was consecrated (additional info and facts about Bishop of Gloucester) Bishop of Gloucester and held the see until his death.
		Fowler was suspected of (additional info and facts about Pelagian) Pelagian tendencies, and his earliest book was a Free Discourse in defence of The Practices of Certain Moderate Divines called Latitudinarians (1670).
		Bunyan described the Design as "a mixture of Popery, Socinianism and Quakerism," an accusation to which Fowler replied in a scurrilous pamphlet entitled Dirt Wip'd Off.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_fowler.htm (318 words)

	Anthony Collins
		The Latitudinarians may well have influenced his views about free-thinking as well as Locke.
		The 17th and early 18th century in England saw a rationalist treatment of theology that spanned many competing groups from the Latitudinarians to the Dissenters to the Deists.
		Profiles the latitudinarian Anglicans both before and after the Revolution of 1688 who used Newtonian natural philosophy as a basis for justifying a particular social order against a materialistic, Hobbesian philosophy that they regarded as atheistic that justified a competing social order.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/collins (11129 words)

	Desert Dispatch newspaper - Barstow, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But if morals are not subjective, as liberals will admit on issues that are of value to them, then moral judgment is necessary and proper.
		It is no accident that demonization of their critics is the main tactic of moral latitudinarians.
		Their position makes no sense, not because we don't like it, but because it is wrong.
	www.desertdispatch.com /2004/110018256034845.html (976 words)

	The Boyle Lectures (1692-1732) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He was chaplain to the Duke of Bedford, became rector of St Mary’s, Lothbury in 1699, and was appointed prebend of Canterbury in 1719.
		He wrote in defence of his fellow latitudinarians, The Low Church-men Vindicated from the Unjust Imputation of being No-church Men (1705), and was appointed Boyle Lecturer for 1706.
		The relation between Faith and Reason was a topic of fierce controversy in seventeenth-century Britain, with the latitudinarians arguing strenuously, against a variety of opponents, for a ‘reasonable’ religion.
	www.thoemmes.com /theology/boylelec_intro.htm (15949 words)

	The Rise and Main Characeristics of the Anglican Evangelical Movement (1943)
		In collaboration with non-conformist Evangelicals it had turned the tide from latitudinarianism to a truer faith and had begun the reconversion of England.
		In its first two stages the Evangelicals had not been identified with the low church group; the latitudinarians had occupied that position, against whom the Evangelicals had protested that they were Socinians.
		The latitudinarians were far more "low church" than the Evangelicals; in the earlier phases of the movement there was no Catholic-Protestant controversy.
	www.episcopalian.org /gambierevangelicals/Background/AnglicanEvangelicalismB1.htm (12263 words)

	Renaissance Forum: Volume 1 Number 1, March 1996: Derek Hirst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Patrick provoked his foes on two fronts -- his method, the 'debate' friendly or otherwise he had constructed, and the devices he (like other Latitudinarians) used to make clear that the reasonableness to which he appealed was not mere ratiocination.
		Polemic by dialogue was of course an old and fairly honourable tradition; but when nonconformist nerves were already sensitive, Patrick's decision to couch his plea for reason and judgement, his denunciation of appeals to the emotions, in the avowedly fictive form of an imagined debate rubbed them raw.
		For the role of Latitudinarianism in resituating the conscience, see William Craig Diamond, 'Public Identity in Restoration England: From Prophetic to Economic' (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1982).
	www.hull.ac.uk /Hull/EL_Web/renforum/v1no1/hirst.htm (6659 words)

	§20. Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement. XI. ...
		Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Cambridge History > The Age of Dryden > Platonists and Latitudinarians > Richard Cumberland (Bishop of Peterborough) and other Contributors to the Latitudinarian Movement
		In the meantime, we find the principles of the latitudinarians—
	www.bartleby.com /218/1120.html (303 words)

	Isaac Newton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus, the clarity and simplicity of science was seen as a way to combat the emotional and metaphysical superlatives of both superstitious enthusiasm and the threat of atheism
		The understanding of the world was now brought down to the level of simple human reason, and humans, as Odo Marquard argued, became responsible for the correction and elimination of evil.
		Newton estimated that 20% of the coins taken in during The Great Recoinage were counterfeit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac%20Newton (4432 words)

	Latitudinarians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The word "latitudinarians" uses 15 letters: A A A D I I I L N N R S T T U.
		Words within latitudinarians not shown as it has more than seven letters.
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	ChurchRodent: Latitudinarians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Signs of reasons's deadening influence upon churches appeared in a large group within the Church of England called the Latitudinarians.
		He and his fellow Latitudinarians stressed instead proper behavior.
		Men should reform their conduct; they should be generous, humane nd tolerant, and avoid bigotry and fanaticism.
	www.tatumweb.com /churchrodent/terms/latitudinarians.htm (93 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.03.43
		H does a terrific job of re-placing this myth into the context of the socio-political, religious, and culture wars of the decade inaugurated by Britain's Gloriously bloodless Revolution.
		By 1688, William Lloyd, once tutor of Wadham Coll., Oxford, latterly a Bishop, had for two decades belonged to a group of "latitudinarian" Anglicans identified with the progressivist scientific rationalism of the Royal Society (including, as time went on, Burnet, Tillotson, Wilkins, Still[ingfleet], Robert Boyle, Wm Wotton, Newton, Locke, Evelyn, Wren).
		The power-knowledge nexus pitched liberal Wadham vs reactionary Christchurch, latitudinarians vs Non-Jurors (who could not swear the oath of allegiance to William).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-03-43.html (2140 words)

	New Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Again this was an experiment in the form of "benign holistic socialism", and involving one thousand settlers.
		His son Robert Dale Owen became actively involved but within two years he was writing of the many problems being encountered: "the town is now beset by a heterogeneous collection of radicals, enthusiastic devotees of principle, honest latitudinarians and lazy theorists, with a sprinkling of unprincipled sharpers thrown in".
		The scheme continued to slide from Robert Owen’s vision but he continued his reforming efforts to the end of his life: for example in 1845 he tried to convene a "World Convention....
	www.rvc.ac.uk /estates/pages/new_communities.htm (1116 words)

	Clandestine E-Texts
		We present here the French translation of a letter published in 1714 by Francis Hare, bishop of Chichester, under the title The Difficulties and Discouragements which attend the Study of Scripture.
		The text reflects an important moment in political and theological debate among Latitudinarians in England.
		The French translation is an excellent example of "cultural transfer", in so far as it could be read in France as confirmation of the failure of controversy between Catholics and Protestants, a failure which greatly favoured the emergence of freethought.
	www.vc.unipmn.it /%7Emori/e-texts (1210 words)

	Information Society - A Middle East Gateway for nonprofit organizations
		In other words, Modernists and Latitudinarianism come to signify, in both instances, the siren calls for the departure from and corruption of the Fundamentals of the Catholic and/or Muslim faith, doctrine, teachings, discipline, symbols, realities, and practices, in favor of accommodating all the modern pagan heresies, alien errors and contemporary idols cited and condemned above.
		Like good modern fundamentalists elsewhere, the Islamists go out of their way to vigorously reassert - contra the games of the Latitudinarians - the certainty of the simple meaning of the Qur'anic verses and of the absolute unilaterality of their message, form and structure; against all permeability, redefinition and innovative interpretation.
		In their war against the "enemy within" they also reaffirm, consolidate and strengthen what may be called the doctrine of "Mohammedan Succession," i.e.
	www.mengos.net /books/ourbooks/sadiq/reconsidered/6modernists.htm (1686 words)

	definition of latitudinarian
		Indifferent to a strict application of any standard of belief or opinion; hence, deviating more or less widely from such standard; lax in doctrine; as, latitudinarian divines; latitudinarian theology.
		One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking.
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	www.brainydictionary.com /words/la/latitudinarian183865.html (236 words)

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