Socinianism and Arminianism: Antitrinitarians, Calvinists and Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Europe

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Socinianism has often been studied in national contexts and apart from other currents like Arminianism. This volume is especially interested in the “in-betweens”: the relationship of Anti-trinitarianism to “liberal” currents in reformed Protestantism, namely Dutch Remonstrants, English Latitudinarians and some French Huguenots. This in-between also has a local aspect: the volume studies the transformations that Anti-trinitarianism experienced in the complicated transition from its origins in Italy and its refuge in Poland, Moravia and Transsylvania to Prussia, to the Netherlands and later to England. What effects did this transfer have on the dynamics of pluralization in the progressive Netherlands? How did the Socinians overcome social adaptation from a group of exiles to a diffuse movement of modernization? How did they manage to connect within the new milieu of Arminians, Cartesians, Spinozists and Lockeans? Preface vii I. Introduction Jan Rohls / Calvinism, Arminianism and Socinianism in the Netherlands until the Synod of Dort 3 Martin Mulsow / The 'New Socinians': Intertextuality and Cultural Exchange in Late Socinianism 49 II. French Connections Didier Kahn / Between Alchemy and Antitrinitarianism: Nicolas Barnaud (ca. 1539–1604?) 81 III. Arminianism and Religious Plurality Florian Mühlegger / Pluralization and Authority in Grotius' Early Works 99 Hans W. Blom / Grotius and Socinianism 121 Dietrich Klein / Hugo Grotius' Position on Islam as Described in 'De veritate religionis Christianae', 'Liber VI' 149 IV. From Poland to the Netherlands Roberto Bordoli / The Socinian Objections: Hans Ludwig Wolzogen and Descartes 177 Luisa Simonutti / Resistance, Obedience and Toleration: Przypkowski and Limborch 187 V. English Quarrels Sarah Hutton / Platonism and the Trinity: Anne Conway, Henry More and Christoph Sand 209 Douglas Hedley / Persons of Substance and the Cambridge Connection: Some Roots and Ramifications of the Trinitarian Controversy in Seventeenth-Century England 225 Stephen David Snobelen / Isaac Newton, Socinianism and “the One Supreme God” 241 Index of Names 299