Constraint on Trial: Dirk Volckertsz Coornhert and Religious Freedom. (Shorter Notices).(Brief Article)

Theological Studies | March 1, 2002| | Copyright

CONSTRAINT ON TRIAL: DIRK VOLCKERTSZ COORNHERT AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. By Gerrit Voogt. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 52. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University, 2000. Pp. 268. $45; $30.

Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522-1590) is the most important Reformation-era thinker on whose life and works no book-length treatment has been available in English until now. His full-blown defense of freedom of conscience, denying to the state any right to regulate the belief of individual citizens, was worked out in a series of dialogues, including Synodus vander ...

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