RT Article
T1 Gottfried Arnold, Unparteiische Kirchen- und Ketzerhistorie (1699-1700)
JF NTT
VO 74
IS 3
SP 285
OP 295
A1 Kirn, Hans-Martin 1953-
LA German
PB Amsterdam University Press
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1726669211
AB G. Arnold’s Impartial History of the Church and of Heretics (1699-1700) offered a radical-pietist view of church history, originating from Lutheranism. With its fundamental criticism of the church as an instrument of power, it deprived confessional ‘partial’ historiography of its foundations. Arnold insisted on the rehabilitation of persecuted and oppressed minorities. His work not only promoted the debate on the dependence of historiography on the historian’s particular standpoint, but over a long period of time also inspired advocates and critics of a tolerant Christianity based on individual religious convictions. The work bears witness to the contribution of Pietism to the modern subjectivation and individualization of faith and religion.
K1 Enlightenment
K1 Gottfried Arnold
K1 Jews
K1 Anabaptists
K1 Church History
K1 Confessionalism
K1 Heresy
K1 Historiography
K1 nonconformism
K1 Pietism
DO 10.5117/NTT2020.3.009.KIRN