John Bunyan and Socinianism

• Published in: The Journal of ecclesiastical history Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 580 - 600
• Main Author: SEAGER, NICHOLAS
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.07.2014
• Subjects: Bible; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); Christianity; English literature; Religious law; Theology; United Kingdom > UK; England

This article recovers John Bunyan's engagement with Socinianism in his doctrinal and imaginative writings. After surveying the rise of Socinianism in seventeenth-century England, the article augments the known theological contexts of Bunyan's disputes with the Quakers and the Latitudinaria...