Journal of Early Modern Christianity Volume 11, Issue 2

17 February 2025

The issue contains research articles on a variety of topics related to Early Modern Christianity, as well as a special dossier on Leonard Lessius  (1542-1621) and the Early Modern Catholic Controversies on Predestination, Grace and Free will.

• Tomasz Karol Mantyk: Theology and Philology in Biblical Translation according to Franciscus Titelmans (1502–1537) on the Example of the Book of Job
• Rob Faesen: The Turn to Interiority in the Early Modern Period.
• Roger L. Revell: William Perkins’s (1558–1602) Case Divinity as a School of Christian Prudence
• Jaekook Lee: Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) and Adiaphora: The Regulative Principle of Worship and the Rule of Christ
• Sukhwan Kang, Genji Yasuhira: Religious Coexistence in the Dutch Republic and France in the Seventeenth Century: Legal Systems, Sacred Spaces, and Minority Resilience in Utrecht and Nîmes
• Theo Basoski: Divine Warrant and Political Discipline: Preaching on the Groningen Landdag in the Third Quarter of the Seventeenth Century in the City of Groningen
• Alberto Luis-López: The Perils of Freethinking according to George Berkeley (1685–1753)

Dossier Leonard Lessius  (1542-1621) and the Early Modern Catholic Controversies on Predestination, Grace and Free will

• Niels de Bruijn: “Enervare atque pervertere verba illa Christi Matthaei 11”: Arguing over Matthew 11:21–22 in Luis de Molina’s (1535–1600) Concordia and Leonardus Lessius’ De gratia efficaci
• Linde van den Eede: Controversy in the Classroom: Jacobus Janssonius (1547–1625) versus Leonardus Lessius on Grace, Free Will and Predestination
• Anton De Preter,  Wim François: “Capite nobis vulpes” (Song 2:15): The Struggle of Libertus Fromondus (1587–1653) with Leonardus Lessius’ Theological Legacy