Heretics at home, heathens abroad: the revival of Dutch Catholicism as global mission
Scholarship on the revival of Catholicism in the Northern Netherlands in the first half of the seventeenth century has long been encased in a nationalist tradition that influenced the study of the Reformation throughout Europe. Utilizing Philip Rovenius' Tractatus de missionibus (1622), this ar...
| Subtitles: | One small village? Church history in international perspective |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
[2017]
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Trajecta
Year: 2017, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-106 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBD Benelux countries KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Internationalism
B Missions Methods B Missions Theory B Jesuits Missions B Clergy and laity B Netherlands Church history 1600-1699 B Rovenius, Philippus, 1574-1651 B Catholic Church Missions B Catholics Identity B Catholic Church Netherlands |
| Summary: | Scholarship on the revival of Catholicism in the Northern Netherlands in the first half of the seventeenth century has long been encased in a nationalist tradition that influenced the study of the Reformation throughout Europe. Utilizing Philip Rovenius' Tractatus de missionibus (1622), this article proposes that historians should consider this Catholic reawakening within a global missionary framework. The endeavor to revitalize Catholic piety in the Netherlands coincided with a worldwide campaign to combat heresy and convert the infidel. Rovenius and other Catholic leaders drew from insights on missions in foreign lands to promote Catholic piety and practice at home. The links between conversion overseas and conversion in Europe point to parallel processes of Catholicization that included cultivating local identity within a universal tradition and relying on lay elites as brokers in unstable circumstances. |
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| ISSN: | 2665-9484 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Trajecta
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