Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
Arie L. Molendijk, "Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century Netherlands"
English | ISBN: 0192898027 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 1351 KB
English | ISBN: 0192898027 | 2022 | 224 pages | PDF | 1351 KB
Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands examines how Dutch Protestant thinkers and theologicans met the challenges of the rapidly modernizing world around them. It shows that the nineteenth-century saw theology fundamentally transformed and reinvented in a variety of ways. Enlightenment values were fiercely attacked by orthodox Pietists but embraced by 'modern' theologians. Positions were not fixed and theologians has to work hard to maintain their intellectual integrity. Jewish Isaac da Costa converted to Christianity and fulminated against the
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