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- ISSN: 0960-2720
- E-ISSN: 2666-9730
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Friedrich Brecklings, Wahrheitszeugen‘: Ein Handbuch zum religiösen Nonkonformismus um 1700
Gothaer Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit, Band 23
Guido NaschertStuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2024; 320 pp, € 64,00, hb; ISBN 978-3-515-13215-2
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: European Journal of Theology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Aug 2025, p. 362 - 365
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- 01 Aug 2025
Abstract
Summary
On account of his criticism of the spiritual state of the Church and the way it confused spiritual and secular tasks, Friedrich Breckling (1629–1711), a north German Lutheran, fled to the Netherlands where he lived for half a century. Based in Amsterdam, Zwolle and The Hague, Breckling built up a wide-reaching network of like-minded correspondents. Through his travels to other places and through the visitors he received, he became a leading networker of pietist and mystic-spiritualist Nonconformists in Europe. This is the first time the lists of the people he denoted “Witnesses to the Truth” and the books he recommended have been published and annotated.
© Jochen Eber