Prophecy and Reason The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment 1st Edition by Andrew Cooper Fix ISBN 9780691633251 0691633251

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ISBN 10:  0691633251

ISBN 13: 9780691633251

Author: 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 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.

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Table of contents: 

Part 1: The Secularizing Trend in Collegiant Thought

1.The Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment

2.The Collegiant Movement

3.A Prophetic Light in the Darkness Shining: Collegiant Chiliasm

4.Galenus Abrahamsz.: A Church Unholy

5.The Ideal of the Universal Church: A Religion of Reason and Toleration

Part 2: Secularization of the Individual Conscience: The Development of Collegiant Rationalism
6. The Articulation of Rational Religion: Collegiant Socinianism
7. Prophecy and Reason: Collegiant Free Prophecy and the Secularization of the Individual Conscience
8. The Rational Inner Light: The Transformation of Spiritualism into Rationalism
9. Jan Bredenburg: The Limits of Reason
10. Radical Religion and the Age of Reason

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