caa a22 4500 386391149 CHVBK 20180307112117.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/4049864 doi S0095139000048869 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/4049864 Zakai Avihu Religious Toleration and its Enemies: The Independent Divines and the Issue of Toleration during the English Civil War [Elektronische Daten] [Avihu Zakai] "Patterns sanctified by great historiographic traditions,” wrote J. H. Hexter, "tend to become fixed. Frequently these patterns are neither logical nor coherent, but the sanction of use and wont behind them is so powerful that researchers tend to force new materials into the time-honored model.” This contention is nowhere more manifest than in the historiography of the Puritan Revolution, where studies of religious developments and struggles during the English Civil War indeed reveal a "time honored model” and tend to convey an almost univocal argument concerning the Independents and the rise of the idea of religious toleration. "As early as 1643,” wrote one expert on the issue of toleration, "when the English Parliament was obliged to ally with the Scots in the Solemn League and Covenant ... the issue of toleration came to the fore.” Consequently, because "the Presbyterian Scots wished to impose their Calvinist order on England, against the opposition on the parliamentary side of a core of Independents led by Oliver Cromwell and Sir Henry Vane the Younger,” the Independents "became the leading opponents of Presbyterianism and supporters of a general toleration.” Copyright © North American Conference on British Studies 1989 Albion Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989), 1-33 0095-1390 21:1<1 1989 21 ALB https://doi.org/10.2307/4049864 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/4049864 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zakai Avihu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Albion Cambridge University Press 21/1(1989), 1-33 0095-1390 21:1<1 1989 21 ALB CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge