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Calvinism and the Making of the European Mind
Calvinism must be assigned a significant place among the forces that have shaped modern European culture. Even now, despite its history of religious fragmentation and secularization, Europe continues to bear the marks of a pervasive Calvinist ethos. The character of that ethos is, however, difficult to pin down. In this volume, many of the traditional scholarly conundrums about the relationship between Calvinism and the cultural history of Europe are revisited and re-investigated, to see what new light can be shed on them. For example, how has the ethos of Calvinism, or more broadly the Reformed tradition, affected economic thinking and practice, the development of the sciences, views on religious toleration, or the constitution of European polities? In general, what kind of transformations did Calvinism’s distinct spirituality bring about? Such questions demand painstaking and detailed scholarly work, a fine sample of which is published in this volume.
Engineering Rumen Metabolic Pathways: Where We Are, and Where Are We Heading
Ruminants were domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago and have since become an inseparable part of human diet, society, and culture. Ruminants can transform inedible plant fiber and non-protein nitrogen into meat, milk, wool and traction, thus allowing human utilization of non-tillable land and industrial by-products. The nutritional flexibility of ruminants is conferred by the rumen´s complex microbial community. Driven by rising income and population growth in emergent economies, the global demand for livestock products, including milk and meat from ruminants, has been increasingly growing, and is predicted to continue growing in the next few decades. The increase in produ...
Reformed Majorities in Early Modern Europe
This volume contains the papers of the international RefoRC conference on 'Reformed Majorities and Minorities in Early Modern Europe' as it was organized by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden in cooperation with the Faculty of 'Artes Liberales' of the University of Warsaw. The conference took place April 10-12, 2013 in Emden and was part of the research project 'Doctrina et Tolerantia' directed by the Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek. The contributions in this volume deal with the question how the relation between doctrine and toleration was dealt with in territories with a Reformed majority. Did the refugee-experience of the Reformed make them tolerant or militant? How did official policy relate to everyday practice? Were there different opinions on this issue within the Reformed tradition? The answers to these questions give more insights into the diversity of international Calvinism and the way theory was put into practice.
Learning to Read, Learning Religion
Catechism primers are inconspicuous but telling little books for children combining the teaching of reading skills and religious catechesis. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, they have been produced, disseminated and used in huge numbers in many regions of the world, in particular in Europe. Remarkably, similar texts appeared across the continent, spanning confessional traditions that were in other respects highly divergent. In different places, and across the whole period, different denominations used not only similar pedagogical and religious strategies, but also shared the same formats and iconography. This volume, edited by scholars from Finland, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, is the result of a collaborative transnational and interdisciplinary effort including education, language teaching, children’s literature, book history, and religious studies. With contributions on seventeen European countries and regions, it sheds new light on a fascinating but largely neglected part of European cultural heritage, and, by establishing a comprehensive and authoritative summary of the field, offers fresh impetus for further transnational research.
Simon en Oliger Pauli
Dit boek beschrijft de levens van twee markante figuren uit het geslacht Pauli. Simon Pauli was predikant en professor theologie aan de Universiteit Rostock in Mecklenburg-Voorpommeren, de oudste universiteit van Noord-Europa. Hij studeerde bij Melanchthon, de boezemvriend van Maarten Luther in Wittenberg. Hij drukte zijn stempel op de omvorming van de universiteit tot een protestants opleidingsinstituut. De Deen Oliger Pauli was een achterkleinzoon van Simon. Deze koopman en ziener spande zich in voor de terugkeer van de Joden naar het heilige land. Hij zag zichzelf als apostel van de Joden en een voorloper van de Messias, die spoedig terug zou keren. Hij verbleef enige jaren in Amsterdam. ...
Herman Herbers, Gouds predikant van 1582-1607
De auteur gaat op zoek naar de diepere drijfveren van de predikant Herman Herbers. Hij werd predikant van de Gereformeerde Kerk in Dordrecht waar hij al snel als een dissenter werd beschouwd. In Gouda werd hij met open armen ontvangen, omdat hij werd gezien als een gematigd predikant die goed paste bij de erasmiaanse gezindheid van de stadsbestuurders en hun streven naar vrede en een brede volkskerk. Uit zijn werk blijkt een mystieke geloofsbeleving, die door de kerk als een bedreiging voor haar gezag werd beschouwd. Herbers volgde vrijmoedig zijn eigen weg, gesteund door het Goudse stadsbestuur. In zijn persoon komen zowel de vrijheidsdrang van de remonstranten als de bevindelijkheid van de Nadere Reformatie samen. Deze unieke combinatie bevestigt zijn betekenis voor de Nederlandse kerkgeschiedenis.
