Table Of ContentReligious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic
Brill’s Series in Church History
Edited by
Wim Janse (VU University Amsterdam)
In cooperation with
Jan Wim Buisman (Leiden)
Paul van Geest (Amsterdam/Tilburg)
Alastair Hamilton (London)
R. Ward Holder (Manchester, NH)
Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge, UK)
Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews)
VOLUME 67
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Religious Minorities and Cultural
Diversity in the Dutch Republic
Studies Presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion
of his 65th Birthday
Edited by
August den Hollander, Alex Noord,
Mirjam van Veen, Anna Voolstra
Co-editors
Michael Driedger, Gary Waite
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Contents
Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction 1
A Reappraisal of the Contribution of Anabaptists to the Religious
Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Dutch Republic 6
Gary K. Waite
I Beg Your Pardon: I am a Heretic! A Countryside Conventicle in Holland
in the 1520s 29
Hans de Waardt
The Edition History of the Deux Aes Bible 41
August den Hollander
Mattheus Jacobszoon’s New Testament and the Addition
of Registers and the Epistle to the Laodiceans to Dutch
Mennonite Bibles 73
Wim François
Caelatum in transitu: Karel van Mander’s The Nativity Broadcast by
Prophets of the Incarnation and its Visual Referents 89
Walter S. Melion
“. . . your praise worthy town Deventer . . .”
Caspar Coolhaes on Unity and Religious Tolerance 111
Mirjam van Veen
The Spirituality of Hiël 124
Alastair Hamilton
Lusthof des Gemoets in Comparison and Competition with
De Practycke ofte oeffeninghe der godtzaligheydt: Vredestad and
Reformed Piety in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture 133
Willem J. op ’t Hof
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Being Mennonite: Neighborhood, Family, and Confessional Choice
in Golden Age Amsterdam 150
Mary S. Sprunger
Membership Required? The Twofold Practice of Believer’s Baptism
within the Amsterdam Mennonite Lamist and Zonist Congregations
during the 17th and 18th Centuries 171
Anna Voolstra
Christian Hoburg’s Lebendige Hertzens-Theologie (1661):
A Book in the Heart of Seventeenth-Century Spirituality 192
Willem Heijting
Religion and Spinoza in Jonathan Israel’s Interpretation of the
Enlightenment 208
Douglas H. Shantz
Mennonite Preachers on the Dutch Pastoral Market, 1650–1865 222
Fred van Lieburg
God Ensures the Existing Order: A Lutheran Minister’s Sermon for a
Day of Repentance in the Year 1788 235
Christoph Burger
Mennonites and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Friesland 249
Yme Kuiper
“The Tares in the Wheat”. Henry E. Dosker’s Calvinist Historiography
of Dutch Anabaptism 268
George Harinck
Index of Names 280
Index of Places 285
Notes on Contributors
Dr. Christoph Burger
is emeritus professor of Church History at the VU University of Amsterdam.
He has published on academic theology, catechismal literature and
eschatological expectations from the late Middle Ages and Reformation era.
Dr. Wim François
is research professor of History of Church and Theology at the Faculty of
Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. His main interests lie in
biblical scholarship from the 16th–17th century, Bible translations, and
mission history.
Dr. Alastair Hamilton
has worked as professor of History of Ideas at the University of Leiden, and is
emeritus professor of History of the Radical Reformation at the University of
Amsterdam. His main interests lie in two fields: the history of Arabic studies
and orientalism in Europe in the early modern period on the one hand, and
religious non-conformism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe on
the other hand. Currently he is attached to the Warburg Institute in London.
Dr. George Harinck
is professor of History of Neo-Calvinism at the VU University of Amsterdam
and director of the Historical Documentation Centre for Dutch
Protestantism. Besides this, Harinck is professor of History at the Theological
University of the Reformed Churches (Liberated) in Kampen and works there
as director of the Archive and Documentation Centre of the Reformed
Churches. He has published on the church in modern society, the reception
of Karl Barth in the Netherlands, Neo-Calvinism and international Protestant
networks.
Dr. Willem Heijting
was, until his retirement, Deputy Director, and before that Curator of Special
Collections, University Library of VU University Amsterdam. He has
published on a range of topics in the field of book history; notably, on early
Protestant Printing.
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Dr. Willem Jan op ’t Hof
is professor of History of Reformed Pietism at the VU University of
Amsterdam and has worked as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in
Hedel, Ouddorp, Nederhemert and the Hersteld Hervormde Church in Urk.
His research focuses on the Nadere Reformatie from a national and
international perspective.
Dr. August den Hollander
is professor of History of the Religious Book at the VU University of
Amsterdam. Besides this, Den Hollander is professor of History of Spirituality
in the Low Countries until about 1750. His research focuses on the religious
book, especially printed Bibles, from the Low Countries.
Dr. Yme Kuiper
is professor of Religious and Historical Anthropology and professor of
Historical Residences and Estates at the University of Groningen. Fields of
interests are elite and aristocracy, leadership, ego documents and religion in
modern society.
Dr. Fred van Lieburg
is professor of History of Dutch Protestantism at the VU University of
Amsterdam. His interests lie in the field of the history of religion, Calvinism
and international Pietism.
Dr. Walter Melion
is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta,
where he has taught since 2004 and currently chairs the Art History
Department. He was previously Professor and Chair of Art History at The
Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively on Dutch and
Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-
theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern
period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius.
Dr. Douglas S. Shantz
is professor of Christian Thought at the Department of Religious Studies at
the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary. His main research interests lie
in the fields of Christian Apocalyptic, German Pietism, and Radical
Reformation Studies.
notes on contributors ix
Dr. Mary S. Sprunger
is professor at the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg and Chair
of the History Department. The centre point of her research is Mennonite
history during the Dutch Golden Age, especially in Amsterdam.
Dr. Mirjam van Veen
is professor of early modern church history at the VU University of
Amsterdam. She wrote her PhD on the polemic between John Calvin and
Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. Her main research interest is the polemic
between the reformation and the radical reformation.
Drs. Anna Voolstra
is a PhD candidate at the Mennonite Seminary at the VU University of
Amsterdam. Piet Visser is her supervisor. The subject of her thesis is the
history of Anabaptists/Mennonites in Amsterdam from 1530 until the
beginning of the 19th century.
Dr. Hans de Waardt
is associate professor of History at the Faculty of Arts at VU University of
Amsterdam. His main research interests are history of witchcraft and magic,
medical history, history of early-modern universities, and Humanism,
Spiritualism and religious tolerance.
Dr. Gary Waite
is professor at the University of New Brunswick for Medieval and Early
Modern History and Chair of the Department of History. He is a specialist in
16th and 17th century European history, especially religious reform,
persecution, witch-hunts, demonology, and Christian-Jewish-Muslim
relations in the 17th century.
