Charles Hodge at Princeton Seminary in the nineteenth century.15 He suggests that this mostly unintentional drift into the Anabaptist ‘Tradition 0’ was fuelled in America by two underlying factors: (1) Enlightenment philosophy, which stressed the individual as the arbiter of truth, distinct from traditions of thought, and (2) a strong belief in the democratic rights of the individual.16 In Europe the second of these factors may not have been as strongly politicized as across the Atlantic, but the first was certainly as influential.
