Tag Archives: Master of St. Gilles

free choice: and there was one not three?

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Dave

Goethe was enchanted by Gottfried Arnold’s “The Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics,” writing, ” that every man in the end came to have his own religion, and now it seemed to me the most natural thing in … Continue reading →

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heretics: each according to his own religion

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Dave

Gottfried Arnold’s two volumes, Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics, published in 1699, which consisted of twenty-three hundred double-column folio pages , raised a storm that lasted a generation. And there were fewer heresies then than now. He … Continue reading →