chapter seven
RELIGION

AndrewE.Barnes

The State Church in Early-Modern Europe … 336
The Thirty Years' War and Its Aftermath … 341
The English Civil Wars … 344
The Restoration Settlement in England … 348
Catholic Culture in the Age of the Baroque … 352
Protestant Culture in the Seventeenth Century … 355
Free Will Versus Predestination in the Dutch Republic … 358
Jansenism and the Jesuits in France … 361
Magic and Witchcraft … 366
Pietism … 371
Christianity, Science, and the Enlightenment … 377
Christianity in the Revolutionary Era … 382

Jacobus Arminius … 385
Cornelius Jansen … 386
William Laud … 387
John Wesley … 388

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
A Landmark of Christian Devotional Literature (excerpt from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) … 349
Religious Diversity as a Strength (excerpt from the sixth of Voltaire's Letters on England) … 351
Opposing Tyranny (excerpt from Duplessis-Mornay's Vindicia Contra Tyrannos) … 357
Report on the State of Dutch Calvinist Churches (excerpts from documents reporting conditions of Calvinist churches) … 359
A Witch's Trial (record of the trial of Marie Cornu) … 368
A Plea for Belief in Witchcraft (excerpt from Glanvill's Sadducism Triumphant) … 369
The First Bible Studies (excerpt from Spener's Pious Desires outlining methods for Bible study) … 373
An Early Itinerant Preacher (excerpt from Wesley's Journals) … 376
Galileo in the Crossfire Between Science and Religion (excerpt from Galileo's letter to Christina of Lorraine concerning heliocentrism) … 377
Christianity Not Mysterious (excerpt from Toland's text commenting on religious authority) … 379
An Enlightenment Examination of an Old Testament Miracle (excerpt from Reimarus' Fragments) … 381
An Enlightenment Attack on Christianity (excerpt from the Baron d'Holbach's Common Sense praising Atheism) … 382