THE GENERAL BAPTISTS AND THE LEVELLERS

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2012 English Publisher:Informa UK LimitedJournal:Baptist Quarterly, volume 44, pages 451-472 (issn: 0005-576X, eissn: 2056-7731,

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Authors: Colin Mason;

doi: 10.1179/bqu.2012.44.8.002

THE GENERAL BAPTISTS AND THE LEVELLERS

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This article examines the links between Levellers and General Baptists during the English Civil Wars of the 1640s and suggests that the political liberty proposed by the Levellers was partly derived from General Baptist ecclesiology and soteriology. Mason engages with Stephen Wright’s account in respect of the alleged Calvinism of Thomas Lambe, the soap-boiler. The relation of both Levellers and General Baptists to Puritanism is discussed, arguing that it is incorrect to describe either group as Puritans.

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