Moses Amyraut
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Moïse Amyraut, in English texts often Moses Amyraut, was a French Huguenot, Reformed theologian and metaphysician. He was the architect of Amyraldism, a Calvinist doctrine that made modifications to C
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William Penn
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William Penn was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, Penn was known for h
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…the statesmanship and eloquence of Amyraut were conceded. Amyraut had as many as a hundred students in attendance upon his lectures. One of these was William Penn, who would later go on to found the Province of Pennsylvania in America based in part on Amyraut's notions of religious freedom. His De l'elevation de…
All Hallows-by-the Tower Church in London, where Penn was baptized in 1644
1666 portrait of Penn at age 22
A plaque memorializing Penn's trial at Old Bailey; in 1688, Penn was imprisoned and held in solitary confinement in the Tower of London following his publication criticizing the practices of the Catholic Church and Church of England.
The Birth of Pennsylvania, a 1680 portrait by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, featuring Penn facing King Charles II