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Peter Sterry

Disciplines:
theology

Summary

English Cambridge Platonist and mystical theologian who served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and developed a Neoplatonic universalist theology.

Core Contribution

Developed a Neoplatonic universalist Christianity arguing that all things will ultimately return to God; the divine image in all souls makes universal salvation philosophically necessary.

Notable Works & Achievements

A Discourse of the Freedom of the Will

The Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of God in the Soul of Man

Historical Influences

Plato Plotinus Benjamin Whichcote

Intellectual Lineage

Cambridge Platonism Puritan Theology

Contemporaries & Peers

Ralph Cudworth Henry More Benjamin Whichcote

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

Cambridge Platonism

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