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Jacob Bauthumley or Bottomley〔Also Jacob Bathumley, Bothumley (''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''), Bauthaumley, Bauthumely.〕 (1613–1692) was a significant English radical religious writer, usually identified as a central figure among the Ranters. He is known principally for ''The light and dark sides of God'' (1650). This work was regarded as blasphemous. After the Blasphemy Act of August 1650, he was arrested, convicted, and bored or burned through the tongue.〔(The Ranters )〕 Bauthumley had served in the Parliamentarian Army;〔(Radical Uses of History in the Restoration )〕 Norman Cohn〔''The Pursuit of the Millennium'', 1970 edition p. 303-6, with extracts.〕 states that he was in the Army while writing the pamphlet, and took part in Ranter and Quaker meetings in Leicestershire in the mid-1650s. Christopher Hill〔''The World Turned Upside Down'', p. 208 of Penguin edition.〕 says he left the Army in March 1650. His family had earlier suffered ostracism, for permitting sermons by Jeremiah Burroughes to be said in their house;〔Nigel Smith, ''Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660'' (1994), p. 143.〕 he was a shoemaker. After the Restoration of 1660 he was a librarian in Leicester. He produced a book of extracts from John Foxe, published in 1676.〔 ==Views== He denied that the Bible was the Word of God,〔Hill, ''The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution'' (1993) p. 234.〕 and that Christ was more divine than other men.〔Hill, ''Milton and the English Revolution'' (1977), p. 293.〕 He considered that the real Devil lay in human nature,〔(403 Forbidden )〕 while God dwells in the flesh of man.〔Hill, Milton, p. 301.〕 E. P. Thompson calls his views 'quasi-pantheistic' in their re-definition of God and Christ, and quotes A. L. Morton to the effect that this is the central Ranter doctrine.〔''Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law'' (1993), p. 26.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacob Bauthumley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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