Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment
Andrew Cooper Fix
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hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691633251
SKU
V9780691633251
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Reviews for Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment
"This book explores the transition in early modern Europe from a worldview based on Providence to a secular outlook based on human reason. The book makes valuable connections between different strands of European religious thought and casts light on the relation between religion and science."
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