Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe For, Against, and Beyond
Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but it is still not clear how this came about. Recent work has uncovered the enormous importance one branch of historiography has had in bringing about such tolerance as we
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Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Persecution and Toleration For~ Against~
Edited by
John Christian Laursen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Histories of heresy in early modern europe : for, against, and beyond persecution and toleration I edited by John Christian Laursen. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Heresy-History. Christian.
2. Europe-Church history.
I. Laursen, John
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Contents
Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction
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Histories of Heresy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Why Were They Written, and How Were They Read? John Christian Laursen
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PART ONE OUTRAGED ORTHODOXY-THE HARD LINE Introduction One
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7 "We are in strange hand;~ and things are come to a strange passe": Argument and Rhetoric Against Heresy in Thomas Edwards's Gangraena (1646) Sammy Basu Francis Lee and the French Prophets: The History of Montanism (1709) Stacey Seari-Chapin
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PART TWO HERETICS IN SELF-DEFENSE AND CALLS FOR TOLERATION Introduction Three
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51 Gabriel Naude's Apology for Great Men Su;pected cif Magic: Variations in Editions from 1625 to 1715 Maryanne Cline Horowitz Hobbes on Heresy Martyn P Thompson
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Between History and Politics: Philipp van Limborch's History of the Inquisition (1692) Luisa Simonutti
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The Public Context of Heresy: Bayle, Maimbourg, and Le Clerc Sally L.Jenkinson
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PART THREE RADICAL HERETICS ON THE OFFENSIVE Introduction Seven
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Histories of Heresy in the Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts Antony McKenna The Trinity as Heresy: Socinian Counter-Histories of Simon Magus, Orpheus, and Cerinthus Martin Mulsow
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Two Jewish Heresies: Spinozism and Sabbatianism Richard Popkin
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PART FOUR A PLAGUE ON MANY HOUSES: JOINING HANDS AGAINST ENTHUSIASM Introduction Ten
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185 Heinrich Corrodi's Critical History cif Chiliasm (1781-1783) Simone Zurbuchen Gibbon and the History of Heresy John G. A. Pocock
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PART FIVE ENLIGHTENED ORTHODOXY Introduction T
