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Criticism and Confession - The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
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Criticism and Confession - The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
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The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment
has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters',
a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals
who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and
other ancient texts, while renouncing the brutal religio-political
disputes that were tearing their continent apart at the same time.
Criticism and Confession offers an unprecedentedly comprehensive
challenge to this account. Throughout this period, all forms of
biblical scholarship were intended to contribute to theological
debates, rather than defusing or transcending them, and meaningful
collaboration between scholars of different confessions was an
exception, rather than the norm. 'Neutrality' was a fiction that
obscured the ways in which scholarship served the interests of
ecclesiastical and political institutions. Scholarly practices
varied from one confessional context to another, and the progress
of 'criticism' was never straightforward. The study demonstrates
this by placing scholarly works in dialogue with works of dogmatic
theology, and comparing examples from multiple confessional and
national contexts. It offers major revisionist treatments of
canonical figures in the history of scholarship, such as Joseph
Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Selden, Hugo Grotius, and Louis
Cappel, based on unstudied archival as well as printed sources; and
it places those figures alongside their more marginal, overlooked
counterparts. It also contextualizes scholarly correspondence and
other forms of intellectual exchange by considering them alongside
the records of political and ecclesiastical bodies. Throughout, the
study combines the methods of the history of scholarship with
techniques drawn from other fields, including literary, political,
and religious history. As well as presenting a new history of
seventeenth-century biblical criticism, it also critiques modern
scholarly assumptions about the relationships between erudition,
humanistic culture, political activism, and religious identity.
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