Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration

292 Pages·2002·27.3 MB·English

by  John Christian Laursen (eds.)

Histories ofHeresy
in Early Modern Europe

Histories of Heresy
in Early Modern Europe
and Beyond
For~ Against~
Persecution and Toleration
Edited by
John Christian Laursen
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Histories of heresy in early modern europe : for, against, and beyond
persecution and toleration I edited by John Christian Laursen.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Heresy-History. 2. Europe-Church history. I. Laursen, John
Christian.
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Contents
Contributors lX
Acknowledgments Xl
Introduction Histories of Heresy in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries: Why Were They Written,
and How Were They Read? 1
John Christian Laursen
PART ONE
OUTRAGED ORTHODOXY-THE HARD LINE
Introduction 7
One "We are in strange hand;~ and things are come to
a strange passe": Argument and Rhetoric Against
Heresy in Thomas Edwards's Gangraena (1646) 11
Sammy Basu
Two Francis Lee and the French Prophets:
The History of Montanism (1709) 33
Stacey Seari-Chapin
PART TWO
HERETICS IN SELF-DEFENSE
AND CALLS FOR TOLERATION
Introduction 51
Three Gabriel Naude's Apology for Great Men
Su;pected cif Magic: Variations in Editions
from 1625 to 1715 61
Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Four Hobbes on Heresy 77
Martyn P Thompson
Five Between History and Politics:
Philipp van Limborch's
History of the Inquisition (1692) 101
Luisa Simonutti
Six The Public Context of Heresy:
Bayle, Maimbourg, and Le Clerc 119
Sally L.Jenkinson
PART THREE
RADICAL HERETICS ON THE OFFENSIVE
Introduction 139
Seven Histories of Heresy in the
Clandestine Philosophical Manuscripts 145
Antony McKenna
Eight The Trinity as Heresy:
Socinian Counter-Histories of
Simon Magus, Orpheus, and Cerinthus 161
Martin Mulsow
Nine Two Jewish Heresies:
Spinozism and Sabbatianism 171
Richard Popkin
PART FOUR
A PLAGUE ON MANY HOUSES:
JOINING HANDS AGAINST ENTHUSIASM
Introduction 185
Ten Heinrich Corrodi's
Critical History cif Chiliasm (1781-1783) 189
Simone Zurbuchen
Eleven Gibbon and the History of Heresy 205
John G. A. Pocock
PART FIVE
ENLIGHTENED ORTHODOXY
Introduction 221
Twelve The Enlightened Orthodoxy
of the Abbe Pluquet 223
Patrick Coleman
Thirteen Heresy in the Encyclopedic d'Yverdon
(1770-1780) 239
Clorinda Donato
Fourteen The Abbe Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier
and the History of Heresy 263
Kathleen Hardesty Doig
Glossary of Heresies 281
Index 285

Contributors
SAMMY BASU is Associate Professor of Political Science at Willamette Uni
versity in Salem, Oregon. He is the author of numerous articles and the
forthcoming book, A Liberal Theory of Self-Ownership: Richard Overton and
the English Revolution.
PATRICK COLEMAN is Professor French at the University of California, Los
Angeles. He is the author of Rousseau's Political Imagination (1984), Repara
tive Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel, 173 {}-1830 (2001),
and nurnerous articles.
KATHLEEN HARDESTY DOIG is Professor of French at Georgia State Uni
versity in Atlanta. She is the author of The Supplement to the Encyclopedia
(1978) and many articles and book chapters.
CLORINDA DONATO is Professor French and Italian at California State
University, Long Beach. She is the author of Inventory of De Felice's Ency
clopedie d'Yverdon (2001) in both hard copy and CD-Rom, as well as
many articles and book chapters.
MARYANNE CLINE HOROWITZ is Professor of History at Occidental Col
lege in Los Angeles. She is the author of Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge
(1998) and numerous articles and book chapters.
SALLY JENKINSON is Visiting Professor of Political Science at U.C.L.A. and
the author of many articles and chapters as well as translator and editor of
Pierre Bayle: Political Writings (2000).
jOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSEN is Professor of Political Science at the Univer
sity of California at Riverside. He is the author of The Politics of Skepticism
in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume, and Kant (1992) and many articles; editor
of several books including Religious Thleration: "The Variety of Rites" from