By Jonathan Israel, Stuart Schwartz, Michiel van Groesen
ISBN-10: 1435645839
ISBN-13: 9781435645837
ISBN-10: 9053569022
ISBN-13: 9789053569023
Of the entire ecu powers, the Dutch have been thought of the main tolerant of minority non secular practices of their colonies. within the growth of Tolerance, a couple of historians examines this strange sensitivity on the subject of the seventeenth-century Dutch colonies of Brazil. Jonathan Israel demonstrates that non secular tolerance lower than Dutch rule in Brazil used to be unheard of. Catholics and Jews coexisted peacefully with the Protestant majority and have been allowed freedom of moral sense and unfettered deepest worship. Stuart Schwartz then considers the Dutch instance in gentle of the Portuguese colonies in Brazil, revealing that the Portuguese have been unusually tolerant as well. This collaboration should be of curiosity to somebody learning colonial heritage or the heritage of spiritual tolerance.
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ANTT, Inq. Lisboa 202 (25 Sept. 1620). See the analysis of the ‘Grande Inquirição’ of 1646 in Anita Novinsky, Cristãos Novos na Bahia (São Paulo 1972) 129-40. She also notes popular resistance to the Inquisition in Brazil in ‘A inquisição portugesa a luz de novos estudos’, Revista de la Inquisición 7 (1998) 297-307. José Antônio Gonsalves de Mello, Tempo dos Flamengos: Influência da Ocupação Holandesa na Vida e na Cultura do Norte do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro 1947) 134. Adriaen van der Dussen, Relatório Sôbre as Capitanias Conquistadas no Brasil Pelos Holandeses (1639) in: Gonsalves de Mello, Tempo dos Flamengos.
Bruno Feitler, Inquisition, Juifs et Nouveaux-Chrétiens au Brésil (Leuven 2003) 183-85. Johan Maurits was a practicing Calvinist who saw the king of Spain as a primary enemy of the Christian faith and according to his chroniclers he also supposedly held negative opinions about Jews. See Schalkwijk, Igreja e Estado, 87. On his measures on behalf of the freedom of conscience of the Portuguese and in defense of their interests see Gaspar Barléu, História dos Feitos Recentemente Praticados Durante Oito Anos no Brasil (Belo Horizonte 1974) 53.
14 41 * Expansion of Tolerance 13-05-2007 15:13 Pagina 42 (Zwart/Process Black Plaat) These ideas circulated widely. They were certainly current in the Sephardic community in Amsterdam. A case in point is that of Juan (Daniel) Prado and Isaac Orobio de Castro, two Sephardic converts who had originally met in 1635 when both were studying theology at the University of Alcalá. They had become good friends long before either had left Spain or professed Judaism. Later, under examination by the Inquisition, Orobio had reported that Prado had told him on that earlier occasion that ‘all men are entitled to redemption, each in virtue of his own religion – Jews, Muslim and Christian are entitled to eternal happiness, because all three religions have political aims, the source of which lies in natural law, which in Aristotle’s philosophy is styled the causa causarum’.
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