Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Anfänge des Sozinianismus: Genese und Eindringen des historisch-ethischen Religionsmodells in den universitären Diskurs der Evangelischen in ... für Europäische Geschichte Mainz - Band 240)

The Sozinians, who were resident in Poland-Lithuania until their expulsion in 1658, constituted a transnational religious minority of Protestant origin, which, despite the small number of its members, succeeded in developing a significant ideological-historical effect in Europe. Although they constituted only about one per cent of the Polish-Lithuanian population, the Sozinians had an academic high school and a print shop in Rakow, from 1602 to 1638, which cultivated and spread a new religious model: Sozinians went from the historical Transformation of religious-moral norms in the sense of a process of perfection, whereby, unlike the established confessions, they raised the subjective reason of the individual to the ultimate decision-making body in religious questions. This historico-ethical model of religion, which in principle affirmed the pluralism of Christianity, was subject to numerous lectures and disputations, and had a preparatory effect on the emergence of European theology of theology. The present study follows the processes of their origins in Fausto Sozzini's thinking. Particular attention will be paid to the development of the historical-ethical model of religion by the representatives of the Early Sozinianism and its discursive processing at the Protestant universities in the Old Kingdom and the Netherlands. About the Author Dr. theol. Kestutis Daugirdas ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut fÃ"r Europäische Geschichte Mainz