Worries Between Refugees: Jean Barbeyrac and the Huguenots of Berlin
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Abstract
This study offers a thorough, archive-based account of the Berlin Huguenot Refuge during the late Seventeenth century, and of the intellectual milieu of the young Jean Barbeyrac, the great Eighteenth-century translator and disseminator of natural law. It not only examines Barbeyrac’s relation to Socinianism and other theological debates, including those over Bible translations such as those of Leclerc and Lenfant, but also complements its narrative with a portrayal of the alleged ‘losers’ in these debates, restoring the dignity of the ‘orthodox’ Gaultiers and Fetizons among others. It thereby corrects over-simplified views of one of modern natural law theory’s heroes, and of socalled modernity itself.
Keywords
- Refuge
- Theological Debates
- Socinianism
- Orthodoxy
- Francois Gaultier
- Daniel Fetizon
- Gabriel d’
- Artis
- Jacques Lenfant
- Philippe Forneret
- Isaac de Beausobre
- Jean Leclerc
- Pierre Bayle
