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Isaac Jaquelot
Isaac Jacquelot (December 1647 in Vassy, France – 15 October 1708 in Berlin, Germany) was a French Huguenot minister. Life Isaac Jacquelot was born in Vassy in Champagne, where his father was a Calvinist minister. He took over his father's position but left France in 1685 on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He went to Heidelberg for a year and then took a position with a Walloon congregation at The Hague. He then left for Basel after finding himself in conflict with Pierre Jurieu. He ended his life as a court preacher in Berlin. Views Jacquelot was a leading figure in the ''rationaux'', the Huguenot proponents of rational theology. Along with Jean Le Clerc and Jacques Bernard, they looked for reason and faith to come into balance and supported religious tolerance. They found themselves opposing Pierre Bayle after 1700. Jacquelot supported Anthonie van Dale's rejection of the supernatural, as did Le Clerc, with some qualification. Their positions, with that of Benjam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Bezanson Hugues (1491–1532?), was in common use by the mid-16th century. ''Huguenot'' was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. By contrast, the Protestant populations of eastern France, in Alsace, Moselle, and Montbéliard, were mainly Lutherans. In his ''Encyclopedia of Protestantism'', Hans Hillerbrand wrote that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community made up as much as 10% of the French population. By 1600, it had declined to 7–8%, and was reduced further late in the century after the return of persecution under Louis XIV, who instituted the '' dragonnades'' to forcibly convert Protestants, and then finally revoke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
