Low Countries As a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 'Totius Mundi Emporium': Antwerp as a Centre for Vernacular Bible Translations, 1523-1545 -- Protestant Conversions in an Age of Catholic Reformation: The Case of Sixteenth-Century Antwerp -- Imagines Peregrinantes. The International Genesis and Fate of two Biblical Picture Books (Hiël and Nadal) Conceived in Antwerp at the End of the Sixteenth Century -- Justus Lipsius's Treatises on the Holy Virgin -- The Religious Position of Abraham Ortelius -- The quandary of the Dutch Reformed church masters -- 'A Serpent in the Bosom of Our Dear Fatherland'. Reformed Reaction to the Holland Mission in the Seventeenth Century -- Obedience with an Attitude. Laity and Clergy in the Dutch Catholic Church of the Seventeenth Century -- Remarkable Providences. The Dutch Reception of an English Collection of Protestant Wonder Stories -- From Minister to Sacred Orator. Homiletics and Rhetoric in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic -- 'Ardens Martyrii Desiderium'. On the Martyrdom of Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678) -- Cornelis van Bynkershoek and Religion. Reflexions of a Critical Mind in The Hague in 1699 and his Reactions to Crossroads of Religious Beliefs -- L'âme amante de son Dieu by Madame Guyon (1717). Pure Love between Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam, at the Crossroads of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- Index Nominum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Photo Section.

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