ABSTRACT
A fundamental difference between this study and the existing historiography of this movement will be its integrated approach, employing all the aspects of Hutchinsonianism to contribute to a suggested definition of the movement. Although the themes explored in Chapter 1 will shape the format of the subsequent chapters – fundamental issues concerning the theory of knowledge, Biblical exegesis, natural philosophy, Hebraic studies and the socio-cultural history of the movement – special attention will be given to handling these issues as integral parts of the entire body of thought. It will become clear that my critique of the historiography given in the first chapter has evolved from an appreciation that the drawbacks of the existing historiography stem from the preoccupations of different historians with just individual aspects of the movement rather than the movement as a whole.
