Abstract
Religious liberty has an assured place among the pantheon of radical ideas to emerge during the English Civil Wars. Notwithstanding their many disagreements, historians have generally viewed conflict as the default mode of interaction among the Puritans engaged with the issue, and justifiably so. Yet during the early 1640s, many Puritan MPs, peers, and divines made large concessions to each other on matters of religious principle, magnifying the areas of agreement and indulging presumed faults. This flexible stance had the effect of lowering the invisible barriers erected by theological differences, which thus enabled a greater commerce of ideas. The principle of debating religious issues before hammering out a settlement and the idea of a spiritual brotherhood reinforcing that principle together served as a prism through which the disruptive effects of rival theories of religious liberty could be refracted.
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