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

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 hum...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1178
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of 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