Ranter
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The Ranters were an alleged sect in the time of the Commonwealth (1649-1660) who were regarded as heretical by the established Church of that period. If they indeed existed, their central idea was pantheistic, that God is essentially in every creature; this led them to deny the authority of the Church, of scripture, of the current ministry and of services, instead calling on men to hearken to Jesus within them. Many Ranters seem to have rejected a belief in immortality and in a personal God, and in many ways they resemble the Brethren of the Free Spirit in the 14th century.
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See also
- Jacob Bauthumley
- Abiezer Coppe
- John Robins
- Seekers
- 17th-century denominations in England
- Christian anarchism
- Nudity in religion
- Rant
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