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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

God's Word Questioned

By: Henk Nellen

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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

God's Word Questioned

By: Henk Nellen

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0192529811

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9780192529817

Hugo Grotius

A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583 – 1645

By: Henk J.M. Nellen

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Hugo Grotius

A Lifelong Struggle for Peace in Church and State, 1583 – 1645

By: Henk J.M. Nellen

Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) is the most famous humanist scholar of the Dutch Golden Age. He wrote influential works on the laws of war and peace, Dutch history and the unification of the churches. His plea for a freedom of the seas in Mare liberum offered the Dutch East India Company a ready justification for the establishment of a trading empire in the East Indies. As far as his daily duties left him any spare time, he penned confidential, learned and beautifully-written letters. This voluminous correspondence offers a trove of information on Grotius’ life and works, and forms the basis of his newest biography which sketches a life caught in a fierce struggle for peace in Church and State.

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BRILL

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9004281797

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9789004281790

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

God's Word Questioned

By: Henk Nellen

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019252982X

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