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Liberty and Religion: Church and State in Leiden's Reformation, 1572-1620
Series: - Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume: 82
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Leiden was the second largest city of the early modern Dutch Republic. This city became officially Protestant in 1572, but it took fifty years before the Reformed Church settled completely into the city's polity and society. This was largely due to disagreements between the city's ruling elites and the Reformed leaders about how much independence the church should enjoy.
This book examines the establishment and early history of the Reformed community of Leiden. The evolution of the controversy between church and state is examined, from the 1570s, during the Dutch Revolt, to the early 1620s - the beginning of the Dutch Republic's Golden Age. It also examines the consequences of this controversy for Leiden's non-Reformed confessions, especially Catholics, Lutherans and Mennonites, and places the case of Leiden in a wider Dutch and European context.
This book examines the establishment and early history of the Reformed community of Leiden. The evolution of the controversy between church and state is examined, from the 1570s, during the Dutch Revolt, to the early 1620s - the beginning of the Dutch Republic's Golden Age. It also examines the consequences of this controversy for Leiden's non-Reformed confessions, especially Catholics, Lutherans and Mennonites, and places the case of Leiden in a wider Dutch and European context.
Christine Kooi, Ph.D. (1993) in History, Yale University, is currently Assistant Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She has published a number of articles on the Dutch urban Reformation and on religious toleration.
'Focusing on the process […] by which Calvinism came to influence Dutch society, important monographic studies have appeared on Haarlem, Utrecht, Delft, Dordrecht, Gouda, and Kampen in past ten years or so. Christine Kooi has framed her very fine study of the advent and consolidation of Calvinism in Leiden within this historiographic approach, and her book provides an important addition to scholarship on the Dutch Reformation…Christine Kooi has provided a thoroughly researched and valuable study of an important city in the Dutch Reformation. It is necessary reading for students of the Protestant Reformation and for church-state relations in early modern Europe.'
Charles H. Parker, Journal of Church and State, 2001.
Charles H. Parker, Journal of Church and State, 2001.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Leiden in the Late Sixteenth Century
2. Building a Church, 1572-1579
3. Schism in the Public Church, 1579-80
4. A “Minor Matter”: The Question of “Genevan” Discipline
5. The Second Generation of Conflict: Arminians and Gomarists
6. Public Church, Private Belief: The Tolerated Congregations
Conclusion
Appendix: The Text of the Arbitral Accord
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Subjects
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Leiden in the Late Sixteenth Century
2. Building a Church, 1572-1579
3. Schism in the Public Church, 1579-80
4. A “Minor Matter”: The Question of “Genevan” Discipline
5. The Second Generation of Conflict: Arminians and Gomarists
6. Public Church, Private Belief: The Tolerated Congregations
Conclusion
Appendix: The Text of the Arbitral Accord
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Subjects
All those interested in Reformation history, early modern Europe, religious and political history, history of the Dutch Republic, as well as those interested in church-state issues.