Two irenical initiatives of G. W. Leibniz. Notes on the secularization of culture
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https://doi.org/10.3989/hs.2018.008Keywords:
Ecumenism, Leibniz, Bossuet, Dialogue, Belief, Ortega y Gasset, Secularisation, Habermas, Molanus, D. E. Jablonsky, Religion and Politics in the seventeenth centuryAbstract
The paper studies two irenic initiatives in which Leibniz took part in the central years of his career. That of Cristóbal de Rojas which sought the reconciliation of catholics and protestants and that maintained with Molanus and D.E. Jablonsky involving the protestant courts of Hannover and Berlin. Special attention is paid to the dual aspect of Leibniz’s position simultaneously following the official line of the dukedom and acting according to a moral vision of an unified humanity that led him to seek in practice new formulations of basic theological terms. We also attend to the dialogue form used by the participants.
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