Liberty and concord in the United Provinces : : religious toleration and the public in the eighteenth-century Netherlands / / by Joris van Eijnatten.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 111
• VerfasserIn: Eijnatten, Joris van,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2003.; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 111.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (573 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Containing Sects -- Chapter Three: Variations in Consensus -- Chapter Four: Rapprochement in Dissent -- Chapter Five: Free Republics, Alien Civilizations and Ideal States -- Chapter Six: Advancing Fundamentals -- Chapter Seven: Qualities of the Polite Christian -- Epilogue: The Pursuit of Civilization -- Short-Title Bibliography of Sources -- Bibliography of Secondary Works -- Index of Names.