Biblical philology and hermeneutical debate in the Dutch Republic in the second half of the seventeenth century

TY - CHAP

T1 - Biblical philology and hermeneutical debate in the Dutch Republic in the second half of the seventeenth century

AU - Touber, Jetze

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2017. All rights reserved.

PY - 2017/11/23

Y1 - 2017/11/23

N2 - Spinoza's time was rife with conflicts. Historians tend to structure these by grouping two opposing forces: progressive Cartesio-Cocceian-liberals versus conservative Aristotelian-Voetian-Orangists. Moderately enlightened progressives, so the story goes, endorsed notions such as human dignity, toleration, freedom of opinion, but shied away from radicalism, held back by the conservative counterforce. Yet the drift was supposed to be inevitably towards the Enlightenment. This chapter tries to capture theological conflicts in the Dutch Republic of the Early Enlightenment in a triangular scheme, that covers a wider range of conflicting interests. Its corners are constituted by 'dogmatism' (Dordrecht orthodoxy), 'scripturalism' (Cocceianism), and 'rationalism' (theology inspired by Cartesianism, Spinozism, or any other brand of new philosophy). Dogmatics and rationalists battled in terms of philosophy, whereas the scripturalists and their respective opponents fought each other rather in the field of biblical scholarship.

AB - Spinoza's time was rife with conflicts. Historians tend to structure these by grouping two opposing forces: progressive Cartesio-Cocceian-liberals versus conservative Aristotelian-Voetian-Orangists. Moderately enlightened progressives, so the story goes, endorsed notions such as human dignity, toleration, freedom of opinion, but shied away from radicalism, held back by the conservative counterforce. Yet the drift was supposed to be inevitably towards the Enlightenment. This chapter tries to capture theological conflicts in the Dutch Republic of the Early Enlightenment in a triangular scheme, that covers a wider range of conflicting interests. Its corners are constituted by 'dogmatism' (Dordrecht orthodoxy), 'scripturalism' (Cocceianism), and 'rationalism' (theology inspired by Cartesianism, Spinozism, or any other brand of new philosophy). Dogmatics and rationalists battled in terms of philosophy, whereas the scripturalists and their respective opponents fought each other rather in the field of biblical scholarship.

KW - Aristotelianism

KW - Cartesianism

KW - Church conflicts

KW - Cocceianism

KW - Dogmatism

KW - Enlightenment

KW - Rationalism

KW - Scripturalism

KW - Voetianism

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85045248826

U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198806837.003.0016

DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198806837.003.0016

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:85045248826

SN - 9780198806837

SP - 325

EP - 347

BT - Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -