Leiden was the second largest city of the early modern Dutch Republic. This city became officially Protestant in 1572, but it took fifty years before the Reformed Church settled completely into the city's polity and society. This was largely due to disagreements between the city's ruling elites and the Reformed leaders about how much independence the church should enjoy. This book examines the establishment and early history of the Reformed community of Leiden. The evolution of the controversy between church and state is examined, from the 1570s, during the Dutch Revolt, to the early 1620s - the beginning of the Dutch Republic's Golden Age. It also examines the consequences of this controversy for Leiden's non-Reformed confessions, especially Catholics, Lutherans and Mennonites, and places the case of Leiden in a wider Dutch and European context.
Author(s): Christine Kooi
Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Tradition, 82
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 258
City: Leiden
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Interpretations of the Dutch Urban Reformation
Chapter One Leiden in the Late Sixteenth Century
Chapter Two Building a Church, 1572–1579
Chapter Three Schism in the Public Church, 1579–80
Chapter Four A “Minor Matter”: The Question of “Genevan” Discipline
The Excommunication of Caspar Coolhaes
The Disciplining of Pieter Hackius
The Leicester Conspiracy
Chapter Five The Second Generation of Conflict: Arminians and Gomarists
Remonstrants and Counter-Remonstrants
Chapter Six Public Church, Private Belief The Tolerated Congregations
“Baptist Errors”: Mennonites
“Inappropriate Conventicles”: Lutherans
“Papist Impudence”: Roman Catholics
Conclusion
The Reformation in the Dutch Cities
Appendix The Text of the Arbitral Accord
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Subjects
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