Page "Paolo Sarpi" Paragraph 25

Though Sarpi admired the English prayer-book, he was no Protestant.

The opinion of Le Courayer, " qu ' il était Catholique en gros et quelque fois Protestant en détail " ( that he was Catholic overall and sometimes Protestant in detail ) is partially true if approximate.

At the end of his life, however, he favoured the Calvinist Contra-Remonstrants ' side at the Synod of Dort, as he wrote to Daniel Heinsius.

Finally, Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests, he may have moved away from dogmatic Christianity.