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Prophecy and Reason - The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Prophecy and Reason - The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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