Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies)

Birkel, Michael/ Northrop, Charlotte

Brill（2020/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 90 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004442733

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Quakeriana Latina: Quaker texts in Latin from the 1670s juxtaposes translations of texts written in Latin by arguably the finest early Quaker theologians, George Keith and Robert Barclay. A commentary provides philological, historical, and theological perspectives. The works by Keith are two substantial letters to German polymath and Christian Kabbalist, Baron Christian Knorr von Rosenroth. The chief concerns of these letters are Christian appropriation of concepts from Jewish mysticism and eschatology. In the year before Keith began this correspondence, Barclay wrote his Animadversiones, a response to an attack from the Dutch Calvinist, Nikolaus Arnold, on his Theses Theologicae. Thus, both writers illustrate how a Quaker might write to a non-Quaker, even non-British, audience, one in a persuasive tone, and the other in a more polemical mode. Together, these texts cast new light on Quakerism in the 1670s.

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Quakeriana Latina: Quaker Texts in Latin from the 1670s

 Michael Birkel and Charlotte Northrop

Abstract

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 1 Introduction

 2 Letters from George Keith to Christian Knorr von Rosenroth

 3 Robert Barclay's Animadversiones

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