Searching for Compromise?
Interreligious Dialogue, Agreements, and Toleration in 16th-18th Century Eastern Europe
Published on 24. November 2022
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Hardback
424 pages
978-90-04-44640-3 (ISBN)
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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 Cervenka, Slawomir Koscielak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszynski, Luise Schorn-Schuette, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumil 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 Cervenka, Slawomir Koscielak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszynski, Luise Schorn-Schuette, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumil Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
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767 gr
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978-90-04-44640-3 (9789004446403)
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Maciej Ptaszynski (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 Wroclaw. 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 Wroclaw. 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).
Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction: Searching for Compromise
?Maciej Ptaszynski
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
?Bogumil 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, Suwalki 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 Cervenka
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 Gdansk
?Slawomir Koscielak
9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592-1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland
?Maciej Ptaszynski
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 Duree of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam Frantisek Kollar (1718-1783)
?Paul Shore
Afterword
?Luise Schorn-Schuette
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction: Searching for Compromise
?Maciej Ptaszynski
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
?Bogumil 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, Suwalki 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 Cervenka
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 Gdansk
?Slawomir Koscielak
9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592-1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland
?Maciej Ptaszynski
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 Duree of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam Frantisek Kollar (1718-1783)
?Paul Shore
Afterword
?Luise Schorn-Schuette
Index