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William Chillingworth was an English Protestant theologian. In his 1638 Religion of the Protestants, he argued that the scriptures are our rule of faith. Although we may not be able to establish their text and meaning with absolute certainty, we can have moral certainty or certainty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Chillingworth, William. 1838. The works of William Chillingworth in three volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Adriaenssen, H.T. (2017). Chillingworth, William. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_473-1
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