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Searching for Compromise?
Interreligious Dialogue, Agreements, and Toleration in 16th–18th Century Eastern Europe
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 235
The Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access.
Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period.
By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective.
Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.
Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period.
By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective.
Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.
Maciej Ptaszyński (Ph.D. 2007) is an associate professor at University of Warsaw. His most recently published book Reformacja w Polsce a dziedzictwo Erazma z Rotterdamu, (2018) received a Prize of the Ministry of Science for the best academic monograph in 2019.
Kazimierz Bem (Ph.D. 2007) is a pastor and a lecturer in church history at the Evangelical School of Theology in Wrocław. He recently published with Brill in the book series St. Andrew’s Studies in Reformation History: Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian-Commonwealth 1548–1648. The Churches and the Faithful. (2020).
Kazimierz Bem (Ph.D. 2007) is a pastor and a lecturer in church history at the Evangelical School of Theology in Wrocław. He recently published with Brill in the book series St. Andrew’s Studies in Reformation History: Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian-Commonwealth 1548–1648. The Churches and the Faithful. (2020).
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction: Searching for Compromise
Maciej Ptaszyński
1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking
Christopher Voigt-Goy
2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Bogumił Szady
3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century
Uladzimir Padalinski
4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century
Kazimierz Bem
5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century
Melchior Jakubowski
6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517)
Jan Červenka
7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church
Bryan D. Kozik
8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk
Sławomir Kościelak
9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland
Maciej Ptaszyński
10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe
Alexander Schunka
11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut
Wolfgang Breul
12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI
Stephan Steiner
13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)
Paul Shore
Afterword
Luise Schorn-Schütte
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction: Searching for Compromise
Maciej Ptaszyński
PART 1: Terms of Coexistence between Law and Tradition
1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking
Christopher Voigt-Goy
2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Bogumił Szady
3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century
Uladzimir Padalinski
4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century
Kazimierz Bem
5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century
Melchior Jakubowski
PART 2: Theology, Communication, Politics
6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517)
Jan Červenka
7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church
Bryan D. Kozik
8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk
Sławomir Kościelak
9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland
Maciej Ptaszyński
Part 3: Radical Century or Age of Toleration?
10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe
Alexander Schunka
11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut
Wolfgang Breul
12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI
Stephan Steiner
13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)
Paul Shore
Afterword
Luise Schorn-Schütte
Index
All scholars interested in questions of religious toleration, interconfessional dialogue and agreements in Central and Eastern Europe from the 16th through to the end of the 18th century. Keywords: Reformation, toleration, irenicism, interconfessional agreements, confessional coexistence, Central Europe, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Grand Duchy of Lithuania