Academic Exercise on the Abstinence of the Early Christians from Reading Profane Books

Th. XII.

Th. XII.

There are the Anabaptists, who destroyed the very elegant Münster Library, valued at twenty thousand ducats A ducat was a gold coin; twenty thousand represented a massive fortune for a library in the sixteenth century., by fire, according to the report by Schelwig b) Sectarian Pietism, article 6.. Likewise the Weigelians Followers of Valentin Weigel, a mystic who prioritized inner revelation over external study., among whom Zimmermann and Homagius, Rectors of the Marburg School, shook all authors of good Latin from the hands of their students, saying: "What are those pagans original: Ethnici to you? Speak Latin however you can" c) Schelwig, in the place cited above.. John Selden calls such people the stubborn Cathars The term Cathar, meaning "pure," was used here as a derogatory label for religious extremists who sought to purge all secular influence. of our age d) In the preface to the book On the Syrian Gods..

Jacob Böhme, however, established a certain philosophy of the Enthusiasts, like a kind of chaos, in his book titled The Great Mystery original: mysterii magni, in which theological, physical, and chemical matters are mixed together. When Quirinus Kuhlmann happened upon this book, he soon devoted himself to the sect of the Enthusiasts, tearing into all Philosophy and Theology with insults, as Morhof relates these things e) Polyhistor, Volume 2, Book 2, Chapter 3, Section 8..