John Lilburne – człowiek, który za bardzo uwierzył w wolność
John Lilburne – the Man, Who Believed Too Much in the Freedom

Summary/Abstract: The Levellers was a political movement during the English Civil War, that advocated the radical political reforms because in those Agreements of the People arguably the first time contemporary democratic ideas had been formally framed and adopted by a political movement. One of Levellers’ leaders and influenced political agitator was John Lilburne, the officer of the New Model Army, also known as Freeborn John. In this Article the Author tries to reconstruct Lilburne’s coherent political doctrine from his speeches, letters and political manifestoes. He argues that Freeborn John’s thought is rooted in Baptist theology because his political and social argument is secularisation of Bapists’ concepts of the origin the Church. From that fact, that congregational government called for and expressed the equality and responsibility of believers under the Lordship of Christ, and that in Jesus Christ all people are equal and everyone is free to be in relationship with God and to express his faith voluntarily, Lilburne infers universal and natural rights, the conventional origin of the society, extended suffrage, general equality before the law, and religious tolerance.

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