Bishop Gilbert Burnet and latitudinarian episcopal opposition to the occasional conformity bills, 1702-1704 (1). From: Canadian Journal of History | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Greig, Martin | COPYRIGHT 2006 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Since 1689 two factions, the Latitudinarians and the High Church party, had been fighting an occasionally vicious war for control of the Church of England. The main sources of friction between them, which were connected, were orthodoxy and the place of the Protestant Dissenters in English religious life: the High Church party accused the Latitudinarians of heterodoxy and of downplaying the doctrinal differences between Anglicans and Dissenters in order to achieve a comprehension with the Di...