“Without Thy Self, O Man, Thou Hast No Means to Look for, by Which Thou Maist Know God.”: Pieter Balling, the Radical Enlightenment, and the Legacy of Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

In 1662, Pieter Balling (d. before 1669), a close friend to Spinoza, published Het Licht op den Kandelaar (translated into English in 1663 as The Light upon the Candlestick), which is often regarded as an exceptionally early “Spinozistic” text. This article, however, analyses the striking parallels...

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Published in:Church history and religious culture
Main Author: Buys, Ruben (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2013
In: Church history and religious culture
Further subjects:B Radical Enlightenment spiritualism the Collegiants Radical Reformation in Europe Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert vernacular rationalism Dutch rationalism Spinozism Pieter Balling
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)