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Fallen angels : Balthasar Bekker, spirit belief, and confessionalism in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic

Author:Andrew C. Fix

Print Book, English, ©1999

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Kluwer, Dordrecht, ©1999

Series:

Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 165

Physical Description:175 p. ; 25 cm.

ISBN:

9780792358763, 0792358767

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:185816362

Subjects:

Bekker, Balthasar

Bekker, Balthasar 1634-1698

Bekker, Balthasar, 1634-1698

Geschichte 1600-1700

Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk Doctrines History 17th century

Reformierte Theologie

Spirits History of doctrines 17th century

Teologer Nederländerna 1600-talet

Contents:

Acknowledgments

ix

PART ONE: BEKKER AND HIS IDEAS

Balthasar Bekker and the Spirit Debate

3

(10)

Bekker, the Sabbath, and Dutch Reformed Confessionalism

13

(22)

Cartesianism and the Spirit Controversy

35

(24)

The Friesian Hercules

59

(24)

PART TWO: REACTION TO BEKKER'S IDEAS

Bekker's Opponents: Confessionalism Under Siege and Cartesianism in Crisis

83

(24)

Cats Not to be Touched Without Gloves: Eric Walten and other Supporters of Bekker

107

(18)

CONCLUSION: THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF THE SPIRIT DEBATE

Most Attacked and Least Defeated: Confessionalism, Anti Confessionalism, and Religious Controversy in the Dutch Republic

125

(34)

Epilogue

The Death of an Atheist

149