Andrew Fix
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Fix |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Fix |
| SIGNATURE | FIX A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sparks of Reason
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De ingebeelde chaos, written by Hendrik Wyermars
Prophecy and Reason
'Unserm grossen Bekker ein Denkmal'? Balthasar Bekkers Betoverde Weereld in den deutschen Landen zwischen Orthodoxie und Aufklärung
With reference to the publication of the Offer Memorandum today, Brill and De Gruyter jointly announce that de Gruyter is making a recommended public offer to all Securityholders for all Securities at an Offer Price of EUR 27.50 per Security (cum dividend)
What Happened to Balthasar Bekker in England? A Mystery in the History of Publishing
This article looks at the fate of Balthasar Bekker's De Betoverde Weereld in England. The famous work opposing the earthly activity of evil spirits, rejecting the reality of witchcraft, and debunking spirit stories by suggesting natural causes for the supposed supernatural events, was published in Amsterdam (following a rowe with the original Leeuwarden publisher) by Anthony van Dale in 1692–1693 and caused an intense controversy. Bekker was a st…
Justification and Merit
on Luther, Jean Wirth has written "In this end of the twentieth cen- tury, when ecumenicism is the order ofthe day among Christians in industrialized countries . . .what is most important to Luther scholars is to deny the revolutionary nature of the Reformation and to connect Luther to the old church by his sense of obedience, his fear of disorder, and his abiding faith" (p.484).According to
Calvinists and Libertines
After the Reformation, the Dutch Republic emerged as the most religiously tolerant country in seventeenth-century Europe. Benjamin Kaplan examines the reasons behind this phenomenon, focusing on the struggle of Calvinist reformers to realize their theocratic aspirations in the Netherlands, and the fierce opposition offered to them by a large, amorphous group of people known as 'Libertines'. Nowhere was this struggle more intense than in Utrecht, …
The Enlightenment's Fable
The Nobility of Holland
1. Introduction 2. Virtue and descent 3. The weight of numbers: demographic trends and forces 4. Endogamy and misalliances 5. Incomes and expenditures 6. Manors and honours 7. Beggars and loyalists 8. Integration and apartheid 9. Conclusion: knights and regents Bibliography Index
The Making of a Bourgeois State
Emden and the Dutch Revolt
Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands
The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590
Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism
(1993). Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 575-588
Prophecy and Reason
During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a radi…
Witchcraft in the Netherlands from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. History of the Low Countries. I
Angels, Devils, and Evil Spirits in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Analyse du milieu collegiant (et plus precisement des positions de B. Bekker sur le mal) qui marque une transition importante entre le cartesianisme et les Lumieres
The Dutch Gentry 1500-1650
Radical Reformation and Second Reformation in Holland
Andrew Fix, Radical Reformation and Second Reformation in Holland: The Intellectual Consequences of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Upheaval and the Coming of a Rational World View, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 63-80
Religious Origins of Modern Science
De Visie op de Joden in de Nadere Reformatie Tijdens het Eerste Kwart van de Zeventiende Eeuw
Gouda in Revolt
Angels, Devils, and Evil Spirits in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Analyse du milieu collegiant (et plus precisement des positions de B. Bekker sur le mal) qui marque une transition importante entre le cartesianisme et les Lumieres
Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism
(1993). Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 575-588
De Visie op de Joden in de Nadere Reformatie Tijdens het Eerste Kwart van de Zeventiende Eeuw
Gouda in Revolt
Religious Origins of Modern Science
Radical Reformation and Second Reformation in Holland
Andrew Fix, Radical Reformation and Second Reformation in Holland: The Intellectual Consequences of the Sixteenth-Century Religious Upheaval and the Coming of a Rational World View, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 1987), pp. 63-80
The Dutch Gentry 1500-1650
Angels, Devils, and Evil Spirits in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Analyse du milieu collegiant (et plus precisement des positions de B. Bekker sur le mal) qui marque une transition importante entre le cartesianisme et les Lumieres
Prophecy and Reason
During the second half of the seventeenth century the entire intellectual framework of educated Europe underwent a radical transformation. A secularized view of humanity and nature was replacing faith in the direct operation of God's will in the temporal world, while a growing confidence in human reason and the Scientific Revolution turned back the epistemological skepticism spawned by the Reformation. By focusing on the Dutch Collegiants, a radi…
Witchcraft in the Netherlands from the Fourteenth to the Twentieth Century. History of the Low Countries. I
Civic Calvinism in Northwestern Germany and the Netherlands
The Political Thought of the Dutch Revolt 1555-1590
Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism
(1993). Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 575-588
Emden and the Dutch Revolt
The Nobility of Holland
1. Introduction 2. Virtue and descent 3. The weight of numbers: demographic trends and forces 4. Endogamy and misalliances 5. Incomes and expenditures 6. Manors and honours 7. Beggars and loyalists 8. Integration and apartheid 9. Conclusion: knights and regents Bibliography Index
The Making of a Bourgeois State
The Enlightenment's Fable
Calvinists and Libertines
After the Reformation, the Dutch Republic emerged as the most religiously tolerant country in seventeenth-century Europe. Benjamin Kaplan examines the reasons behind this phenomenon, focusing on the struggle of Calvinist reformers to realize their theocratic aspirations in the Netherlands, and the fierce opposition offered to them by a large, amorphous group of people known as 'Libertines'. Nowhere was this struggle more intense than in Utrecht, …
Justification and Merit
on Luther, Jean Wirth has written "In this end of the twentieth cen- tury, when ecumenicism is the order ofthe day among Christians in industrialized countries . . .what is most important to Luther scholars is to deny the revolutionary nature of the Reformation and to connect Luther to the old church by his sense of obedience, his fear of disorder, and his abiding faith" (p.484).According to
What Happened to Balthasar Bekker in England? A Mystery in the History of Publishing
This article looks at the fate of Balthasar Bekker's De Betoverde Weereld in England. The famous work opposing the earthly activity of evil spirits, rejecting the reality of witchcraft, and debunking spirit stories by suggesting natural causes for the supposed supernatural events, was published in Amsterdam (following a rowe with the original Leeuwarden publisher) by Anthony van Dale in 1692–1693 and caused an intense controversy. Bekker was a st…
'Unserm grossen Bekker ein Denkmal'? Balthasar Bekkers Betoverde Weereld in den deutschen Landen zwischen Orthodoxie und Aufklärung
With reference to the publication of the Offer Memorandum today, Brill and De Gruyter jointly announce that de Gruyter is making a recommended public offer to all Securityholders for all Securities at an Offer Price of EUR 27.50 per Security (cum dividend)
Prophecy and Reason
De ingebeelde chaos, written by Hendrik Wyermars
Sparks of Reason
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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