TY - BOOK ID - 101187127 TI - Religious Currents and Cross-Currents: Essays on Early Modern Protestantism and the Protestant Enlightenment AU - Berg, Johannes van den AU - Bruijn, Jan de AU - Holtrop, Pieter AU - Wall, Ernestine van der PY - 1999 SN - 9789004476509 9789004114746 9004114742 PB - Leiden; Boston : Brill DB - UniCat KW - Protestantism KW - History KW - Christianity KW - Church history KW - Protestant churches KW - Reformation KW - Protestantism - History - 18th century KW - Protestantism - History - 17th century KW - England - Church history - 17th century KW - Netherlands - Church history - 17th century KW - Netherlands - Church history - 18th century KW - England - Church history - 18th century KW - England KW - Netherlands UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101187127 AB - The religious history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Protestantism was marked by a twofold movement. On the one hand there were attempts to consolidate and, if necessary, to reaffirm the heritage of the Reformation; on the other hand, we meet a growing critical evaluation of the legacy of mainstream orthodox thought, which could lead to a process of gradual renewal and reorientation, but also to forms of more radical and controversial criticism. Conservative as well as critical tendencies can be discerned in the religious landscape on both sides of the North Sea. In spite of differences in the historical framework and spiritual culture, the developments in Great-Britain and on the Continent often present remarkable parallels, and the water of the North Sea was not too deep for creative interaction. This volume contains a number of essays which deal with various aspects of English and Dutch church history and theology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Special attention is given to the problems surrounding the Calvinist doctrine of predestination; to English Puritanism and its impact on the Netherlands; to Jewish-Christian relations and polemics in the seventeenth century; to seventeenth-century millenarianism, in particular in the circle of the Cambridge Platonists; to the attitute of Dutch Reformed theologians to the Church of England, to eighteenth-century English and Dutch orientalist studies and to the development of enlightened ideas in the circles of English and Dutch Protestantism. ER -