Searching for Compromise?

Maciej Ptaszyński (Ph.D. 2007) is an associate professor at University of Warsaw. His most recently published book Reformacja w Polsce a dziedzictwo Erazma z Rotterdamu, (2018) received a Prize of the Ministry of Science for the best academic monograph in 2019. Kazimierz Bem (Ph.D. 2007) is a pastor and a lecturer in church history at the Evangelical School of Theology in Wrocław. He recently published with Brill in the book series St. Andrew’s Studies in Reformation History: Calvinism in the Polish Lithuanian-Commonwealth 1548–1648. The Churches and the Faithful. (2020).

Contents


List of Illustrations


Notes on Editors


List of Contributors





Introduction: Searching for Compromise


 Maciej Ptaszyński





PART 1: Terms of Coexistence between Law and Tradition


1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking


 Christopher Voigt-Goy





2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries


 Bogumił Szady





3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century


 Uladzimir Padalinski





4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century


 Kazimierz Bem





5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century


 Melchior Jakubowski





PART 2: Theology, Communication, Politics


6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517)


 Jan Červenka





7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church


 Bryan D. Kozik





8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk


 Sławomir Kościelak





9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland


 Maciej Ptaszyński





Part 3: Radical Century or Age of Toleration?


10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe


 Alexander Schunka





11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut


 Wolfgang Breul





12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI


 Stephan Steiner





13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)


 Paul Shore





Afterword


 Luise Schorn-Schütte





Index