Gerrard Winstanley's Experimental Knowledge of God (The Perception of the Spirit and the Acting of Reason)

This essay is an attempt to find out what Winstanley meant by certain terms, using close textual analysis. Extensive work has already been done in locating Winstanley in political, theological and, as far as possible, intellectual terms. This will receive only cursory treatment here. A scholarly tra...

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Main Author: Baxter, Nicola (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1988
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1988, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 184-201
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