Radical Groups and Ideologies Flashcards
In-dependency
believed in national church without enforcement powers
opposed by Anglicans and Presbyterians (parliament)
Levellers
reform laws and religious freedom etc
grew in NMA
Diggers
agrarian socialism
formed by Gerald Winstanley
not influential
Quakers
ending tithes and wanted religious freedom
1660 - 60,000 quakers
George fox 1650
Fifth Monarchists
believed Charles death signalled judgement day
violence led to arrest
Muggletonians
1651 no god just jesus
Lodewick muggleton and John Reeve claimed last prophets
opposition from quakers
Ranters
rejected obedience and sin
supported levellers
Secularism
Separation of church and state
Latitudinarian Party
moderate Anglicans that supported broad church
Long term religion influence
Growth of Protestantism meant more focus on bible and literacy
Decline of Anglican Church
Bad leadership
development of religious ideas
influence in establishment deterred many
Thomas Hobbes 1651
developed theory that rejected divine right of kings
argued Monarchy prevented state of nature causing war of all against all
John Locke
agreed with Hobbes
less pessimistic
believed people pick government
Royal Society
Charles 2 in 1660 set up to support science
allowed new discoveries like Newtons laws and changed viewpoints
Newton head of society 1703
William Harvey
1616 discovered circulatory system