Philipp van Limborch

Philipp van Limborch, Latinized Philip van Limborck ( born June 19, 1633 Amsterdam, † April 30, 1712 ) was an Arminian theologian and professor of Remonstrant Seminar at the University of Amsterdam.

Life

Limborch grew up in Amsterdam, where his father was a lawyer. Mother's side he was a great-nephew of Simon Episcopius.

Limborch studied at the Seminary of the Remonstrants in Amsterdam under Gerhard Johannes Vossius, Caspar van Baerle ( Barlaeus ) and Étienne de Courcelles ( Curcellaeus; 1586-1659 ) and from 1652 attended the University of Utrecht, where he heard Gisbert Voetius. In 1657 he became Arminian preacher in Gouda. In 1667 he was appointed as a preacher of Amsterdam, 1668 professor of theology at the Seminary of the Remonstrants, where Jean Leclerc ( Le Clerc ) was his colleague. He held until his death in 1712 this place.

Limborch led his understanding continued the legacy of Erasmus, Arminius, Vossius, Grotius and Simon Episcopius he saw realized particularly in tolerance and independent search for truth. As the first Arminian theologian, he wrote a dogma, which was directed to the practice of Christian piety and the ethics involved. He introduced the distinction between fundamental and non- fundamental doctrines, which he, inter alia, the Trinity, Christology and predestination among the non fundamental teachings expected. He tried to develop a mediating theology, which was limited to necessary dogmas, for which he was suspected of Socinianism. Limborch was an opponent of Spinoza, the deists and agnostics. He corresponded with many scholars of his time, among them Jean Leclerc, Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), John Tillotson (1630-1694), Ralph Cudworth and Henry More. With John Locke whom he had a long-standing friendship. Under him and the Leclerc Arminian theology reached its greatest impact on the European foresight, especially in England and the Netherlands.

Work (selection)

  • Institutiones theologiae Christianae ad praxin pietatis promotionem et Pacis, christianae unice directae (Amsterdam 1686)
  • De Veritate Christianae religionis amica coltatio cum erudito Judaeo ( Gouda 1687 ) - Main
  • Historia Inquisitionis (1692 ), with an edition of the Liber Sentences Inquisitionis Tolosanae ( 1307-1323 )
  • Commentarius in Ada Apostotorum et in Epistolas ad Romanos et ad Hebraeos (Rotterdam 1711)
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