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In the preceding chapter, I cast the thought of Whichcote and Cudworth as a reaction against the Calvinism of their families and fellow students and tutors at Emmanuel. But the goal of this chapter is to explain Whichcote and Cudworth's crucial role in the development of religious liberty. And to do this, we need to situate them in a broader context, amid the political and religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England as a whole. In Section A, I fill in some of this background. In B, I sketch the main points of Whichcote and Cudworth's views on religious liberty and how Whichcote embodied those views during the civil war in the 1650s. And in C, I look at arguments for religious liberty Cudworth gave in 1647.
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In the preceding chapter, I cast the thought of Whichcote and Cudworth as a reaction against the Calvinism of their families and fellow students and tutors at Emmanuel. But the goal of this chapter is to explain Whichcote and Cudworth's crucial role in the development of religious liberty. And to do this, we need to situate them in a broader context, amid the political and religious upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England as a whole. In Section A, I fill in some of this background. In B, I sketch the main points of Whichcote and Cudworth's views on religious liberty and how Whichcote embodied those views during the civil war in the 1650s. And in C, I look at arguments for religious liberty Cudworth gave in 1647.
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