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This study deals with Hugo Grotius' famous apologetic work De veritate religionis christianae, the Latin version of a Dutch poem which he wrote in 1620 while imprisoned in Loevestein, entitled Bewijs van den waren godsdienst. The first part of this book examines the genesis of the work and the development of the text. The middle sections give an analysis of the motives that led Grotius to write this work and of the sources he most probably used. The final chapters examine the notes that Grotius added to his work in 1640 and the reception of the work in the author’s lifetime. The book is illustrated with several historical drawings and prints of Grotius and his time.
Price: $168.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date:
19 February 2004
ISBN: 9789004137035
Format: Hardcover
'...Grotius takes the very Erasmian stance that religious truth is witnessed not by dogmatic purity but by peace and unity and it was to this end that he built his argument...that made De veritate so useful for later thinkers attempting to defend religion in Europe from a rationalized, often Neo-Stoic, latitudinarian, or "Arminian" position, or attempting to convert followers of other religions.'
Wood Bouldin, Renaissance Quarterly, 2005.
‘This work is a very fundamental, careful piece of scholarship and will be of great help to Grotius scholars in the English-speaking world.’
Jeremiah Hackett, University of South Carolina, Sixteenth Century Journal
Wood Bouldin, Renaissance Quarterly, 2005.
‘This work is a very fundamental, careful piece of scholarship and will be of great help to Grotius scholars in the English-speaking world.’
Jeremiah Hackett, University of South Carolina, Sixteenth Century Journal
Jan Paul Heering, Ph.D. (1992), University of Leiden, is now solicitor at the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden) and partner of the law firm Barents & Krans in The Hague.