Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic: Studies Presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

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Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic explores various aspects of the religious and cultural diversity of the early Dutch Republic and analyses how the different confessional groups established their own identity and how their members interacted with one another in a highly hybrid culture. This volume is to honour Dr. Piet Visser on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Piet Visser has become a leading scholar in the field of the Anabaptist and Mennonite History. Since January 1, 2002, he served as the chair of Anabaptist/Mennonite History and Kindred Spirits at the Doopsgezind Seminarium, VU-University, Amsterdam. Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction A Reappraisal of the Contribution of Anabaptists to the Religious Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Dutch Republic I Beg Your Pardon: I Am a Heretic! A Countryside Conventicle in Holland in the 1520s The Edition History of the Deux Aes Bible Mattheus Jacobszoon’s New Testament and the Addition of Registers and the Epistle to the Laodiceans to Dutch Mennonite Bibles Caelatum in transitu: Karel van Mander’sThe Nativity Broadcast by Prophets of the Incarnation and its Visual Referents “. . . your praiseworthy town Deventer . . .”Caspar Coolhaes on Unity and Religious Tolerance The Spirituality of Hiël Lusthof des Gemoets in Comparison and Competition with De Practycke ofte oeffeninghe der godtzaligheydt: Vredestad and Reformed Piety in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture Being Mennonite: Neighborhood, Family, and Confessional Choice in Golden Age Amsterdam Membership Required? The Twofold Practice of Believer’s Baptism within the Amsterdam Mennonite Lamist and Zonist Congregations during the 17th and 18th Centuries Christian Hoburg’s Lebendige Hertzens-Theologie (1661): A Book in the Heart of Seventeenth-Century Spirituality Religion and Spinoza in Jonathan Israel’s Interpretation of the Enlightenment Mennonite Preachers on the Dutch Pastoral Market, 1650–1865 God Ensures the Existing Order: A Lutheran Minister’s Sermon for a Day of Repentance in theYear 1788 Mennonites and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Friesland “The Tares in the Wheat.” Henry E. Dosker’s Calvinist Historiography of Dutch Anabaptism Index of Names Index of Places