Grindletonians

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The Grindletonians were a 17th-century English Puritan sect known for their antinomian beliefs and emphasis on inner spiritual experience over external religious authority.

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instanceOf Christian movement
Puritan sect
religious sect
basedIn Grindleton NERFINISHED
Lancashire NERFINISHED
category Christian radical movements
English dissenters
Protestant sects
contemporaryWith English Civil War era religious movements
country England
countryOfOrigin England
doctrine freedom from the moral law for the regenerate
inner light of the Spirit
spiritual perfectionism
emphasis inner spiritual experience
historicalPeriod early Stuart England
influenced later English antinomian currents
influencedBy mystical spirituality
radical Puritanism
language English
locatedInTime 17th century
namedAfter Grindleton NERFINISHED
opposed external religious authority
formal church structures
legalistic morality
religion Christianity
status defunct religious group
theologicalOrientation Puritanism NERFINISHED
antinomianism
viewedAs heretical by some contemporaries

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