01144nam a22001457a 4500 517381 517381 210712b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ha, Polly 26577 Revolutionizing the new model Army: Ecclesiastical Independence, Social justice, and political legitimacy Journal of The History of Ideas 81(4), Oct, 2020: 531-553 There is no consensus on the precise role of ecclesiastical independents in shaping the revolutionary politics of the New Model Army. This essay explores how they crucially stretched the notion of non-dominating freedom across the social order and applied it more generally to the army’s social and political contexts. It then turns to how this understanding of freedom informed the army’s view of social justice, shaping the soldiers’ particular grievances and material demands. Finally, it considers how the concept of independence also enabled religious apologists for the army to advance new claims to self-authenticating institutional legitimacy. – Reproduced Journal of The History of Ideas ARMED FORCES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391447 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-12 81(4), Oct, 2020: 531-553 AR124720 2021-07-12 AR