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  "title": "Latitude in belief, rather than a named opponent",
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  "body_markdown": "The word carries a history of allowing latitude in religious belief and discipline. A near-contemporary reference witness, the 1911 *Encyclopædia Britannica*, distinguishes an older use, associated with early eighteenth-century Low Churchmen, from the nineteenth-century Broad Church emphasis on ethical teaching and reduced insistence on orthodoxy. Its account also warns against treating these changing party names as interchangeable. See [‘Low Churchman,’ final historical discussion](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Low_Churchman).\n\nChesterton's adjective ‘modern’ makes the broader, contemporary application especially relevant: he is attacking people who dismiss the rationale for binding religious authority. The paragraph supplies no names or documents that would identify all his targets with one Anglican party. The term supplies a polemical orientation, not a reliable membership list. Nor does religious latitude itself logically entail the radical doubt about thinking that the next paragraph introduces; that connection belongs to Chesterton's argument.",
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        "question": "What does 'modern latitudinarians' suggest to a reader near 1908, and does it name a specific party?"
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        "question": "How does authority as a protective barrier compare with the explicit account of faith and reason in Vatican I?"
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