Levellers
The Levellers were an important political and religious movement in England (1647-1649) at the time of Cromwell, which, obviously influenced by Anabaptism, demanded absolute civil and religious liberty and the complete separation of church and state, but which finally degenerated into a passionate attack on the state and was therefore gradually suppressed. Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy was associated with the Levellers.
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Author(s) | Christian Neff |
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Date Published | 1957 |
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 329-330. All rights reserved.
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