Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Church of England’s doctrine that miracles had ceased and reducing the royal mystique of the King’s touch, influenced public opinion towards the most famous miracle healer of the age, King Charles II himself . Greatrakes’s encroaching on … Royal Society , and he puzzled and bewitched English society. Even the King, Charles II, 8 as well as other eminent figures at court and in the various institutions of government and learning ( Glanvill 86 ), devoted their attention to … his followers, but virtually with no exception 9 from the influential personalities of the time (Royalists as well as Republicans) was particularly relevant . 4 . Joseph Glanvill, A Blow at Modern Sadducism (London: Printed by E. C. for …
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