INTRODUCTION Enlightened Religion: From Confessional Churches to Polite Piety in the Dutch Republic
European religious culture changed in the transition from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. We have known this for a long time. Ernst Troeltsch, in his Die Bedeutung des Protestantismus für die Entstehung der modernen Welt (1906), famously hinted at a reconceptualization of religion at this...
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| Published in | Enlightened Religion p. 1 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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| Summary: | European religious culture changed in the transition from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. We have known this for a long time. Ernst Troeltsch, in his Die Bedeutung des Protestantismus für die Entstehung der modernen Welt (1906), famously hinted at a reconceptualization of religion at this juncture, especially within Protestant areas such as the Dutch Republic and England. Here Troeltsch saw the roots of a ‘New Protestantism,’ essentially the Kulturprotestantismus of his own time, a Protestantism that had turned away from the confessional definitions of the sixteenth century. Through its absorption of elements from Renaissance humanism, Anabaptism, and spiritualism this |
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| ISBN: | 9789004298927 9004298924 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/j.ctvrzgvr2.5 |