Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic Brill’s Series in Church History Edited by Wim Janse (VU University Amsterdam) In cooperation with Jan Wim Buisman (Leiden) Paul van Geest (Amsterdam/Tilburg) Alastair Hamilton (London) R. Ward Holder (Manchester, NH) Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge, UK) Andrew Pettegree (St. Andrews) VOLUME 67 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bsch Religious Minorities and Cultural Diversity in the Dutch Republic Studies Presented to Piet Visser on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday Edited by August den Hollander, Alex Noord, Mirjam van Veen, Anna Voolstra Co-editors Michael Driedger, Gary Waite LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: a bookplate or ex-libris designed by Piet Visser in his early days. This publication has been typeset in the multilingual ‘Brill’ typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, ipa, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. 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Contents Notes on Contributors  vii Introduction  1 A Reappraisal of the Contribution of Anabaptists to the Religious  Culture and Intellectual Climate of the Dutch Republic  6 Gary K. Waite I Beg Your Pardon: I am a Heretic! A Countryside Conventicle in Holland in the 1520s  29 Hans de Waardt The Edition History of the Deux Aes Bible  41 August den Hollander Mattheus Jacobszoon’s New Testament and the Addition of Registers and the Epistle to the Laodiceans to Dutch Mennonite Bibles   73 Wim François Caelatum in transitu: Karel van Mander’s The Nativity Broadcast by Prophets of the Incarnation and its Visual Referents  89 Walter S. Melion “. . . your praise worthy town Deventer . . .” Caspar Coolhaes on Unity and Religious Tolerance  111 Mirjam van Veen The Spirituality of Hiël  124 Alastair Hamilton Lusthof des Gemoets in Comparison and Competition with De Practycke ofte oeffeninghe der godtzaligheydt: Vredestad and Reformed Piety in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture  133 Willem J. op ’t Hof vi contents Being Mennonite: Neighborhood, Family, and Confessional Choice in Golden Age Amsterdam   150 Mary S. Sprunger Membership Required? The Twofold Practice of Believer’s Baptism within the Amsterdam Mennonite Lamist and Zonist Congregations during the 17th and 18th Centuries  171 Anna Voolstra Christian Hoburg’s Lebendige Hertzens-Theologie (1661): A Book in the Heart of Seventeenth-Century Spirituality  192 Willem Heijting Religion and Spinoza in Jonathan Israel’s Interpretation of the Enlightenment  208 Douglas H. Shantz Mennonite Preachers on the Dutch Pastoral Market, 1650–1865  222 Fred van Lieburg God Ensures the Existing Order: A Lutheran Minister’s Sermon for a Day of Repentance in the Year 1788   235 Christoph Burger Mennonites and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Friesland  249 Yme Kuiper “The Tares in the Wheat”. Henry E. Dosker’s Calvinist Historiography of Dutch Anabaptism  268 George Harinck Index of Names  280 Index of Places  285 Notes on Contributors Dr. Christoph Burger is emeritus professor of Church History at the VU University of Amsterdam. He has published on academic theology, catechismal literature and eschatological expectations from the late Middle Ages and Reformation era. Dr. Wim François is research professor of History of Church and Theology at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven. His main interests lie in biblical scholarship from the 16th–17th century, Bible translations, and mission history. Dr. Alastair Hamilton has worked as professor of History of Ideas at the University of Leiden, and is emeritus professor of History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam. His main interests lie in two fields: the history of Arabic studies and orientalism in Europe in the early modern period on the one hand, and religious non-conformism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe on the other hand. Currently he is attached to the Warburg Institute in London. Dr. George Harinck is professor of History of Neo-Calvinism at the VU University of Amsterdam and director of the Historical Documentation Centre for Dutch Protestantism. Besides this, Harinck is professor of History at the Theological University of the Reformed Churches (Liberated) in Kampen and works there as director of the Archive and Documentation Centre of the Reformed Churches. He has published on the church in modern society, the reception of Karl Barth in the Netherlands, Neo-Calvinism and international Protestant networks. Dr. Willem Heijting was, until his retirement, Deputy Director, and before that Curator of Special Collections, University Library of VU University Amsterdam. He has published on a range of topics in the field of book history; notably, on early Protestant Printing. viii notes on contributors Dr. Willem Jan op ’t Hof is professor of History of Reformed Pietism at the VU University of Amsterdam and has worked as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in Hedel, Ouddorp, Nederhemert and the Hersteld Hervormde Church in Urk. His research focuses on the Nadere Reformatie from a national and international perspective. Dr. August den Hollander is professor of History of the Religious Book at the VU University of Amsterdam. Besides this, Den Hollander is professor of History of Spirituality in the Low Countries until about 1750. His research focuses on the religious book, especially printed Bibles, from the Low Countries. Dr. Yme Kuiper is professor of Religious and Historical Anthropology and professor of Historical Residences and Estates at the University of Groningen. Fields of interests are elite and aristocracy, leadership, ego documents and religion in modern society. Dr. Fred van Lieburg is professor of History of Dutch Protestantism at the VU University of Amsterdam. His interests lie in the field of the history of religion, Calvinism and international Pietism. Dr. Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since 2004 and currently chairs the Art History Department. He was previously Professor and Chair of Art History at The Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image- theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artist Hendrick Goltzius. Dr. Douglas S. Shantz is professor of Christian Thought at the Department of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary. His main research interests lie in the fields of Christian Apocalyptic, German Pietism, and Radical Reformation Studies. notes on contributors ix Dr. Mary S. Sprunger is professor at the Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg and Chair of the History Department. The centre point of her research is Mennonite history during the Dutch Golden Age, especially in Amsterdam. Dr. Mirjam van Veen is professor of early modern church history at the VU University of Amsterdam. She wrote her PhD on the polemic between John Calvin and Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert. Her main research interest is the polemic between the reformation and the radical reformation. Drs. Anna Voolstra is a PhD candidate at the Mennonite Seminary at the VU University of Amsterdam. Piet Visser is her supervisor. The subject of her thesis is the history of Anabaptists/Mennonites in Amsterdam from 1530 until the beginning of the 19th century. Dr. Hans de Waardt is associate professor of History at the Faculty of Arts at VU University of Amsterdam. His main research interests are history of witchcraft and magic, medical history, history of early-modern universities, and Humanism, Spiritualism and religious tolerance. Dr. Gary Waite is professor at the University of New Brunswick for Medieval and Early Modern History and Chair of the Department of History. He is a specialist in 16th and 17th century European history, especially religious reform, persecution, witch-hunts, demonology, and Christian-Jewish-Muslim relations in the 17th century.