This paper investigates the later seventeenth reception of Grotius De veritate, contextualising the presentation of editions with the various theological attempts to identify and defend a ‘reasonable’ religion. In particular it focuses on the intellectual relationships between the projects for a ‘non-mysterious’ Christianity advanced by John Toland, and the more sincere ambitions of the most learned editor of Grotius in the eighteenth century, Jean Leclerc. The major themes context the theological arguments and reception to changing conceptions of the power and function of the established Church.
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Trevor-Roper, ‘The religious origins of the Enlightenment’, pp. 198, 207, 220, 232-33.
See J.A.I. Champion, ‘John Toland: the Politics of Pantheism’, Revue d'Synthese 116 (1995), 259-280.
See J.J. V.M. de Vet, ‘Jean Leclerc, an enlightened propagandist of Grotius’ “De Veritate Religionis Christianae” ’, Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis 64 (1984), 160-195.
Grotius, The truth of the Christian religion, pp. 292, 294-95.
Grotius, The truth of the Christian religion, pp. 297, 303-305.
Tulloch, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy, pp. 242, 245-46.
Tulloch, Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy, pp. 396, 405, 409.
See N. McDowell, ‘The ghost in the marble: Jeremy Taylor’s Liberty of Prophesying (1647) and its readers’, in Scripture and scholarship in early modern England, ed. by N. Keene and A. Hessayon, (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 176-191; J. D. Schaeffer, ‘Tropical latitude: prophecy, orality and the rhetoric of tolerance in Jeremy Taylor’s “The Liberty of Prophesying”’, Studies in Philology 101 (2004), 454-470.
Taylor, A discourse of the liberty of prophesying, pp. 23, 42.
Taylor, A discourse of the liberty of prophesying, pp. 59-61.
Taylor, A discourse of the liberty of prophesying, p. 167, 169.
Taylor, A discourse of the liberty of prophesying, p. 168. See Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. by R.Tuck (Cambridge, 1991), Chapter 32, pp. 255-256.
Champion, ‘Making authority: belief, conviction and reason’, pp. 180-181.
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This paper investigates the later seventeenth reception of Grotius De veritate, contextualising the presentation of editions with the various theological attempts to identify and defend a ‘reasonable’ religion. In particular it focuses on the intellectual relationships between the projects for a ‘non-mysterious’ Christianity advanced by John Toland, and the more sincere ambitions of the most learned editor of Grotius in the eighteenth century, Jean Leclerc. The major themes context the theological arguments and reception to changing conceptions of the power and function of the established Church.
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