James Allin

James Allin (fl. 1650s) was an English Radical Reformation theologian whose writings challenged prevailing assumptions about civil authority and Christian governance during the tumultuous period of the English Civil War and Interregnum. His treatise *Magistracy an Institution of Christ Upon the Throne* articulated a distinctive theological vision that sought to reconcile Christian principles with questions of political legitimacy, contributing to the broader seventeenth-century debate over the proper relationship between ecclesiastical and secular power. Allin's work remains significant for understanding the intellectual diversity of radical Protestant thought in mid-seventeenth-century England and the theological foundations upon which various sectarian groups constructed their political philosophies.