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3 unusual facts about Socinian controversy


Socinian controversy

These two publications prompted William Sherlock's Vindication (1690) of the doctrine of the Trinity.

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An unintended consequence of strong attacks by theologically orthodox Anglicans, in the longer term, was a resulting greater de facto tolerance extending among English Protestants, after a halt was called to the aggressive stance in particular of William Sherlock.

Thomas Firmin

John Tillotson Archbishop of Canterbury and a friend of Firmin, who had lectured on the Socinian controversy at St. Lawrence, Jewry, in 1679–80, felt himself compelled by ‘calumnies’ to publish the lectures in 1693.



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