 By this time More’s anti-Calvinism and his emphasis upon rational theology ensured that he was branded as a “Latitude-man” by more conservative divines, and with the return of the exiles to Cambridge the Latitudinarians came to be seen as potentially subversive in both politics and religion (Crocker 2003). If More did write his Grand Mystery of Godliness partially as a response to his precarious situation in Cambridge he did not engage in dissimulation of his beliefs. Evidently More believed that his position was so reasonable that a clear statement of his beliefs would win over his critics and result in his complete rehabilitation. More’s chief purpose in the book was to persuade believers that there are only a few essential doctrines of the Church, all other details of one’s faith being indifferent to one’s salvation, and that all that was required of a good Christian was to recognise and adhere to these essentials (which was the hallmark of Latitudinarianism).