Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World. Alec Ryrie
believed that in this new age of the Spirit, most of received Christianity was simply out of date. They disliked talk of resurrection and judgment, instead thinking of the dead returning to “that infinite Bulk and Bigness, so called God, as a drop into the Ocean”. Some even spoke of reincarnation.19
This tiny, quixotic movement, which had flared and disappeared by the mid-1650s, matters less in its own right than as a clue to the movement that contemporaries called Seekers. Seekers were in no sense a sect, but a mood: a restless conviction that the established forms of Christianity were simply inadequate and should be abandoned. Some Seekers waited for the new age of the Spirit to reveal itself. Others set out to create it.
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