Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces

Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12843-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 111, 566 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eijnatten, Joris Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. Containing Sects
3. Variations in Consensus
4. Rapprochement in Dissent
5. Free Republics, Alien Civilizations and Ideal States
6. Advancing Fundamentals
7. Qualities of the Polite Christian

Epilogue: The Pursuit of Civilization

Short-Title Bibliography of Sources
Bibliography of Secondary Works
Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

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).