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The radical Reformation and the making of modern Europe : a lasting heritage / by Mario Biagioni

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Biagioni, Mario
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Physical Description
xi, 180 pages ; 25 cm.

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Contents
Preface -- A broader vision of the radical reformation : some historiographical remarks -- Bainton, Cantimori and "Eretici italiani del Cinquecento" -- The radical reformation in the historiography of the second half of the twentieth century -- A broader vision of the radical reformation -- Travelers of Utopia : the other Europe of the Italian exiles religionis causa -- Travelers of Utopia -- Parallel escapes : Pietro Martire Vermigli and Bernardino Ochino -- The hard choice of Fausto Sozzini -- Francesco Pucci and the Realistic Utopia -- Toleration and Adam's immortality : an example of the relationship between Locke and the Socinians -- The immortality of Adam and the Breadth of the Kingdom of God in Locke's writings -- Adam, Locke and the Socinians -- The debate between Fausto Sozzini and Francesco Pucci on Adam's immortality -- The issue of Adam's immortality in Socinian thought after Fausto Sozzini -- The immortality of Adam, salvation of mankind and toleration : is there a relationship? -- Infinite mercy and the infinite universe : Francesco Pucci and Giordano Bruno -- The infinite amplitude of the Kingdom of God -- Erasmian affinities : Francesco Pucci and Giordano Bruno -- A lasting heritage : a brief history of Puccianism in the seventeenth century -- Christian Francken and the skepticism of the sixteenth century -- The descent of Christian Francken "in immensum" -- Christian Francken and the criterion of truth -- Christian Francken and the "dispute between a theologian and a philosopher on the uncertainty of Christian religion" -- Christian Francken and the sixteenth-century origins of the treatise "De tribus impostoribus" -- Conclusions -- The radical reformation and the making of modern Europe -- Secularism -- Toleration and rationalism -- The break of modernity -- Bibliography -- Index of names.
Summary
In this book, Mario Biagioni presents an account of the lives and thoughts of some radical reformers of the sixteenth century (Bernardino Ochino, Francesco Pucci, Fausto Sozzini, and Christian Francken), showing that the Radical Reformation was not merely a subplot of heretical history within the larger narrative of the Magisterial Reformation. Religious radicalism was primarily an extraordinary laboratory of ideas, which played a pivotal role in the rise of modern Europe: it influenced the intellectual process leading to the cultural revolution of the Enlightenment. Secularism, toleration, and rationalism - three basic principles of Western civilization - are part of its cultural heritage.
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9789004335776 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9004335773 (hardback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-171) and index.
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