Protestantism
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The Christian faith gradually adopted by England during and after the Reformation.
Historians tell us that if we survey the era of the Reformation it is all but impossible to fix the exact date at which Englishmen definitely accepted Protestantism, and that the difficulty of fixing the date at which the country could be finally ranged among Protestant rather than Roman Catholic communities, arises from the fact that the change of belief, which ultimately became perfectly marked, …
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
The religious movement invoked by Erdmann as an analogue for modern philosophy's spirit of freedom from authority.
"Modern philosophy is Protestantism in the sphere of the thinking spirit" (Erdmann).