Proceedings of a symposium held July 12-13, 2003 at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index.

Preliminary Material / Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls -- Calvinism, Arminianism and Socinianism in the Netherlands until the Synod of Dort / Jan Rohls -- The ‘New Socinians’: Intertextuality and Cultural Exchange in Late Socinianism / Martin Mulsow -- Between Alchemy and Antitrinitarianism: Nicolas Barnaud (ca. 1539–1604?) / Didier Kahn -- Pluralization and Authority in Grotius’ Early Works / Florian Mühlegger -- Grotius and Socinianism / Hans W. Blom -- Hugo Grotius’ Position on Islam as Described in De veritate religionis Christianae, Liber VI / Dietrich Klein -- The Socinian Objections: Hans Ludwig Wolzogen and Descartes / Roberto Bordoli -- Resistance, Obedience and Toleration: Przypkowski and Limborch / Luisa Simonutti -- Platonism and the Trinity: Anne Conway, Henry More and Christoph Sand / Sarah Hutton -- Persons of Substance and the Cambridge Connection: Some Roots and Ramifications of the Trinitarian Controversy in Seventeenth-Century England / Douglas Hedley -- Isaac Newton, Socinianism and “the One Supreme God” / Stephen David Snobelen -- Index of Names / Martin Mulsow and Jan Rohls.

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Socinianism has often been studied in national contexts and apart from other currents like Arminianism. This volume is especially interested in the “in-betweens”: the relationship of Anti-trinitarianism to “liberal” currents in reformed Protestantism, namely Dutch Remonstrants, English Latitudinarians and some French Huguenots. This in-between also has a local aspect: the volume studies the transformations that Anti-trinitarianism experienced in the complicated transition from its origins in Italy and its refuge in Poland, Moravia and Transsylvania to Prussia, to the Netherlands and later to England. What effects did this transfer have on the dynamics of pluralization in the progressive Netherlands? How did the Socinians overcome social adaptation from a group of exiles to a diffuse movement of modernization? How did they manage to connect within the new milieu of Arminians, Cartesians, Spinozists and Lockeans? Contributors include: Hans W. Blom, Roberto Bordoli, Douglas Hedley, Sarah Hutton, Didier Kahn, Dietrich Klein, Florian Mühlegger, Martin Mulsow, Jan Rohls, Luisa Simonutti, and Stephen David Snobelen.