Philip van Limborck

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Philip van Limborck

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

Life

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

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

According to his understanding, Limborch carried on the legacy of Erasmus of Rotterdam , Arminius , Vossius, Grotius and Simon Episcopius , which he saw particularly realized in tolerance and an independent search for truth. As the first Arminian theologian, he wrote a dogmatics which was directed to the practice of Christian piety and which included ethics . He introduced the distinction between fundamental and non-fundamental beliefs. a. counted the Trinity , Christology and predestination among the non-fundamental doctrines. In doing so, he tried to develop a mediating theology that was limited to necessary dogmas, which is why he came under suspicion of socinianism . Limborch was an opponent of Spinoza , the deists and agnostics . He corresponded with many scholars of his time, including Jean Leclerc, Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), Edward Stillingfleet (1635–1699), John Tillotson (1630–1694), Ralph Cudworth and Henry More . He had a long friendship with John Locke . Under him and Leclerc, Arminian theology achieved its greatest influence on the early European Enlightenment , particularly in England and the Netherlands .

Work (selection)

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Thomann:  Philippus van Limborck. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 69-71.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Ernst Feil, note 1 on Philipp van Limborch
  3. ↑ Günther Thomann: Limborch, Philip van.

literature

  • Ernst Feil: Religio. Third volume: The history of a modern basic concept in the 17th and early 18th centuries. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, 62ff. ISBN 3-525-55187-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Limborck, Philippus van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Limborch, Philipp van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Arminian theologian, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1712
Place of death Amsterdam