Towards a Reformed Enlightenment / / Matthias Mangold.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 352
• VerfasserIn: Mangold, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 352.; Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (550 pages)

In Towards a Reformed Enlightenment: Salomon van Til (1643–1713) and the Cartesio-Cocceian Debates in the Early Modern Dutch Republic , Matthias Mangold offers the first in-depth investigation into the theological and philosophical convictions of an influential, yet hitherto much neglected, Dutch th...

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
•  1 Literature Review
•  2 Objectives of This Study
•  3 Methodological Considerations
•  4 Sources
•  5 Overview
• Part 1: Van Til in Context
• 1 Intellectual Developments at Van Til’s Time
•  1.1 Introduction
•  1.2 Currents within Early Modern Dutch Protestantism
•  1.3 Descartes and Cartesianism in the Dutch Republic
•  1.4 Spinoza, Spinozism and the ‘Radical Enlightenment’
•  1.5 Summary and Conclusion
• 2 Van Til’s Life and Work
•  2.1 Van Til’s Early Life and Education
•  2.2 Pastoral Ministry in North-Holland (1666–1683)
•  2.3 Minister and Professor in Dordrecht (1683–1702)
•  2.4 Professor in Leiden (1702–1713)
•  2.5 Summary and Conclusion
• Part 2: Van Til’s Cartesianism
• 3 Theology and Philosophy
•  3.1 Introduction
•  3.2 Early Modern Discussions on Theology and Philosophy
•  3.3 Van Til’s Concept of Rational Philosophy
•  3.4 Philosophical Knowledge
•  3.5 Theology and Philosophy Separated
•  3.6 Harmony and Tension
•  3.7 The Nature of Revealed Theology
•  3.8 Establishing the Authority of Scripture
•  3.9 Summary and Conclusion
• 4 Natural Theology
•  4.1 Introduction
•  4.2 Van Til’s Compendium on Natural Theology
•  4.3 Natural Theology: Knowing God
•  4.4 Natural Ethics: Serving God
•  4.5 Preparation for the Gospel
•  4.6 Summary and Conclusion
• 5 Reason and Scriptural Interpretation
•  5.1 Introduction
•  5.2 Scripture, Clarity, and the Task of Interpretation
•  5.3 Tradition and Church Authority
•  5.4 The Proper Use of Reason
•  5.5 Interpretation “Befitting of God” and the Unity of Truth
•  5.6 The Bible, Divine Accommodation, and the Copernican Worldview
•  5.7 Dualism and the Devil
•  5.8 Summary and Conclusion
• 6 Engagement with Spinoza
•  6.1 Introduction
•  6.2 Historical Considerations
•  6.3 Anti-Spinozan Polemics in the Voor-hof and the Vervolg
•  6.4 The Voor-hof (1694) and the Challenge to Biblical Authority
•  6.5 The Vervolg (1696) and Spinoza’s Radical Theology
•  6.6 Van Til’s Academic Engagement with Spinoza in His Compendium
•  6.7 Summary and Conclusion
• Part 3: Van Til’s Cocceianism
• 7 A Call for Moderation
•  7.1 Introduction
•  7.2 The “Leiden Prohibition” and the Voetian Polemics of 1676
•  7.3 Cocceian Irenicism in the Aftermath of 1676
•  7.4 Van Til’s Plea for Concord: Salems vrede (1678)
•  7.5 Van Til’s Fundamental Reflections on Ecclesiastical Peace
•  7.6 Van Til’s Assessment of the Cocceian Issues
•  7.7 Summary and Conclusion
• 8 Prophetic Theology
•  8.1 Introduction
•  8.2 Cocceius and the Roots of Cocceian Prophetic Theology
•  8.3 Further Developments and the Friesland Crisis of the Early 1680s
•  8.4 Van Til’s Inleydinge tot de prophetische schriften
•  8.5 Van Til’s Prophetic Exegesis and Emblematics
•  8.6 The De Joncourt Controversy
•  8.7 Summary and Conclusions
• 9 Federal Theology
•  9.1 Introduction
•  9.2 Van Til’s Concept of Covenant
•  9.3 The Covenant of Works (foedus operum)
•  9.4 The Covenant of Grace (foedus gratiae)
•  9.5 Salvation-Historical Differentiations in the Covenant of Grace
•  9.6 The “Counsel of Peace” between the Father and the Son
•  9.7 Summary and Conclusion
• Conclusion
•  1 Van Til’s Appropriation of Cartesian Philosophy
•  2 Van Til’s Appropriation of the Cocceian Heritage
•  3 Van Til’s Cartesio-Cocceian Synthesis and the Reformed Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic
• Appendix: Van Til’s Works in Chronological Order
• Bibliography
• Index.