Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Studia Rosenthaliana
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,2 (1987) 140-153
Keywords:
Limborch, Philipp van.
;
Orobio de Castro, Isaac,
Abstract:
Discusses the account published in Gouda in 1684 by Philippus van Limborch, a theological professor in Amsterdam, of his written discussion with Isaac Orobio de Castro, a Converso who had returned to Judaism in Amsterdam. Van Limborch's book "De veritate religionis christianae amica collatio cum eriudito judaeo" represents a break with traditional Christian polemics. Orobio de Castro asked for proof of the necessity of belief in Christ and the Christian interpretation of the Old Testament from the Old Testament itself, in the spirit of the polemic of the Spanish school founded by Ramon Martí. Van Limborch, however, denigrated the importance of the Old Testament, influenced by Grotius and 17th century radical critics of the Bible. He argued that natural reason has to decide whether Christ's teachings are divine based on the account in the New Testament, forcing Orobio de Castro to question its historical validity. Despite his sympathetic attitude to the Jews, Van Limborch saw their religion as primitive and redundant.
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