"Sermons" reflects Blair's position as a member of the moderate or latitudinarian party. The SDAP was mainly supported by atheists and latitudinarian protestants. An ascendancy of Whig and Latitudinarian principles came in with the Georgian era. Good examples of the latitudinarian philosophy were found among the Cambridge Platonists. The party was inspired by "kathedersocialisme", the progressive politics professed by latitudinarian preachers. Puritan experience underlay the later Latitudinarian and Evangelical trends in the Church of England. John Bunyan complained in those terms about Edward Fowler, a close latitudinarian follower. Hooker worked largely from Thomas Aquinas, but he adapted scholastic thought in a latitudinarian manner. Later, the latitudinarian position was called broad church. For this approach they were called "latitudinarian". His personal religious views have been described as latitudinarian. Many Low Church and Latitudinarian Anglicans viewed ritualism and the accompanying teaching with horror. Besides, Gilbert is counted among the Latitudinarian divines with distinctive theological characteristics of thought. He came from a latitudinarian liberal family, reading socialist literature at a young age. George I favoured the Whigs in Parliament and favoured a latitudinarian ecclesiastical policy in general.