^{page 13 note 1} See my article in the Hibbert Journal, Autumn 1965, pp. 1 ff. A similar attempt was made by another Church in 1972.

^{page 13 note 2} Attributed to Chillingworth, W. (1602–44) See his Religion of Protestants, Vol. II. (London: H. G. Boan, 1846), p. 410.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 1} English History in Contemporary Poetry, IV (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), pp. 40 ff.Google Scholar

^{page 14 note 2} This was discovered in 1823 and published in 1825. Milton's anti-trinitarianism was unknown until the publishing of this work. See Milton, J., Prose Works (London, 1853).Google Scholar

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^{page 22 note 1} Address at Ordination Service (Dublin, 1829), p. 27.

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^{page 24 note 1} ibid., p. 281.

^{page 24 note 2} ibid., p. 283. If we hold the existence of a personal God, then, as Harris says, we must seek to provide a better and more convincing explanation than Strauss (ibid., p. 284).

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^{page 25 note 4} The publication of Honest to God was seen by some to indicate such a position; and the Death of God theology in America was viewed as an even stronger extreme position. But certainly we can say of the latter that it was outside the main stream of thinking there, and appears to have faded considerably after the first shock of its impact.