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Book SynopsisThe Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period. By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective. Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Editors List of Contributors Introduction: Searching for Compromise Maciej Ptaszyński PART 1: Terms of Coexistence between Law and Tradition 1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking Christopher Voigt-Goy 2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries Bogumił Szady 3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century Uladzimir Padalinski 4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century Kazimierz Bem 5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century Melchior Jakubowski PART 2: Theology, Communication, Politics 6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517) Jan Červenka 7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church Bryan D. Kozik 8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk Sławomir Kościelak 9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland Maciej Ptaszyński Part 3: Radical Century or Age of Toleration? 10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe Alexander Schunka 11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut Wolfgang Breul 12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI Stephan Steiner 13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783) Paul Shore Afterword Luise Schorn-Schütte Index
