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The Non‐Jurors and their History
Author(s) -
LEIGHTON C. D. A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of religious history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9809
pISSN - 0022-4227
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9809.2005.00344.x
Subject(s) - optimal distinctiveness theory , exemplification , argument (complex analysis) , rationalism , enlightenment , historiography , context (archaeology) , period (music) , value (mathematics) , epistemology , history , aesthetics , sociology , law , philosophy , psychology , social psychology , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , machine learning , computer science
This paper is concerned to establish and elucidate the intellectual distinctiveness of the Anglican Non‐Jurors of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian period. It places the Non‐Jurors in the context of the early Counter‐Enlightenment and finds their distinctiveness within it, as a body, in the extent and intensity of their commitment to rationalist, critical historical study as a theological method, reflecting a primitivist, or more precisely, restorationist religious stance. The writings of Charles Leslie and Jeremy Collier are those chiefly used in exemplification. The concluding part of the study enquires into the sources of the Non‐Jurors’ confidence in the value of historical argument in controversy. It points particularly to the Non‐Jurors’ use of the practices of contemporary historiography, which regulated the application of rationalism by requiring concurrent application of doctrinal and moral standards.