Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces

Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands

AvJoris van Eijnatten

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

This volume offers an outline of developments in the intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. Emphasizing changes in the relations between religious belief and the public sphere, it seeks to add new perspectives to recent analyses of toleration. Each chapter of this book discusses a different aspect of the eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debate. On the basis of a large number of sources, and paying particular attention to minor writers, a broad variety of topics is treated, ranging from the official Reformed confessions and legal scholarship to unionism, apologetics, sociability, and the press. This study extends contemporary analyses of early modern thought on toleration to the end of the eighteenth century.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-11-20
Mått:160 x 240 x 40 mm
Vikt:1 136 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Antal sidor:566
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004128439

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Joris van Eijnatten, Ph.D. (1993), teaches early modern history at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on Dutch intellectual and religious culture, including Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia (Olschki, 1998).

Recensioner i media

"...thoroughly researched and written in lively and engaging style. Its content, presented in historical narratives, biographical sketches and careful expositions of published work is so rich and detailed that one might be easily distractied were it not for the clear and orderlay arrangement of its chapters, a descriptive table of contents, and chapter introductions, all of which is properly attended to will prove to be trustworthy guides."Victor Nuovo, British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2005."This book is an excellent antidote to noncontextual analyses of single works by famous authors like Spinoza, Bayle, or Lock on toleration. For example, it emerges that Locke was better known in toleration debates for his Reasonableness of Christianity than for his letters On Toleration.This book makes it clear that such authors must be situated in the larger contexts of debates among their predecessors, comtemporaries, and successors if we are to understand the real meaning and importance of their work."John Christian Laursen, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2004.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Containing Sects3. Variations in Consensus4. Rapprochement in Dissent5. Free Republics, Alien Civilizations and Ideal States6. Advancing Fundamentals7. Qualities of the Polite ChristianEpilogue: The Pursuit of CivilizationShort-Title Bibliography of SourcesBibliography of Secondary WorksIndex of Names