@article{aup:/content/journals/10.5117/NTT2004.1.005.VEEN, author = "van Veen, Mirjam G.K.", title = "‘De aert van Spaensche Inquisitie’ Coornherts opvattingen over de verhouding tussen kerk en staat", journal= "NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion", year = "2004", volume = "58", number = "1", pages = "61-76", doi = "https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT2004.1.005.VEEN", url = "https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT2004.1.005.VEEN", publisher = "Amsterdam University Press", issn = "2590-3268", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Abstract In recent publications the Dutchman Dirk Volckertsz Coornhert (1522-1590) is honoured as the forerunner of religious tolerance and of the modern idea of the separation of church and state. This picture is one-sided and therefore mistaken. Coornhert feared the influence of the Dutch reformed church and was convinced that this church aimed at a new inquisition. Moved by this fear he urged the city-magistrates to set bounds to the reformed influence. In his view the only way to avoid a new tyranny was the establishment of a national church ruled by the magistrates. Coornhert was not an advocate of a separation between the church and the state; he was a clear exponent of erastianism.", }