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Prophecy and Reason : The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment / Andrew Cooper Fix.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1178Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (292 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691604046
  • 9781400861927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274
LOC classification:
  • BX6195.15 -- .F58 1991eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: The Secularizing Trend in Collegiant Thought -- CHAPTER ONE. The Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment -- CHAPTER TWO. The Collegiant Movement -- CHAPTER THREE. A Prophetic Light in the Darkness Shining: Collegiant Chiliasm -- CHAPTER FOUR. Galenus Abrahamsz.: A Church Unholy -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Ideal of the Universal Church: A Religion of Reason and Toleration -- PART TWO: Secularization of the Individual Conscience: The Development of Collegiant Rationalism -- CHAPTER SIX. The Articulation of Rational Religion: Collegiant Socinianism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Prophecy and Reason: Collegiant Free Prophecy and the Secularization of the Individual Conscience -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Rational Inner Light: The Transformation of Spiritualism into Rationalism -- CHAPTER NINE. Jan Bredenburg: The Limits of Reason -- Chapter Ten. Radical Religion and the Age of Reason -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a radical Protestant group that flourished in Holland from 1620 to 1690, Andrew Fix explicates the mechanisms at work in this crucial intellectual transition from traditional to modern European worldview. Starting from Rijnsburg, near Leiden, the Collegiants spread over the course of the century to every major Dutch city. At the same time, their thinking evolved from a millenarian spiritualism influenced heavily by the sixteenth-century Radical Reformation to a philosophical rationalism similar to the ideas of Spinoza. Fix has taken on an important topic in the history of ideas: the circumstances under which natural reason came to be accepted as an autonomous source of truth for the individual conscience. He also has fresh and concrete things to say about the relationship between religion and science in early modern European history.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART ONE: The Secularizing Trend in Collegiant Thought -- CHAPTER ONE. The Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment -- CHAPTER TWO. The Collegiant Movement -- CHAPTER THREE. A Prophetic Light in the Darkness Shining: Collegiant Chiliasm -- CHAPTER FOUR. Galenus Abrahamsz.: A Church Unholy -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Ideal of the Universal Church: A Religion of Reason and Toleration -- PART TWO: Secularization of the Individual Conscience: The Development of Collegiant Rationalism -- CHAPTER SIX. The Articulation of Rational Religion: Collegiant Socinianism -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Prophecy and Reason: Collegiant Free Prophecy and the Secularization of the Individual Conscience -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Rational Inner Light: The Transformation of Spiritualism into Rationalism -- CHAPTER NINE. Jan Bredenburg: The Limits of Reason -- Chapter Ten. Radical Religion and the Age of Reason -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a radical Protestant group that flourished in Holland from 1620 to 1690, Andrew Fix explicates the mechanisms at work in this crucial intellectual transition from traditional to modern European worldview. Starting from Rijnsburg, near Leiden, the Collegiants spread over the course of the century to every major Dutch city. At the same time, their thinking evolved from a millenarian spiritualism influenced heavily by the sixteenth-century Radical Reformation to a philosophical rationalism similar to the ideas of Spinoza. Fix has taken on an important topic in the history of ideas: the circumstances under which natural reason came to be accepted as an autonomous source of truth for the individual conscience. He also has fresh and concrete things to say about the relationship between religion and science in early modern European history.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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