Frans Kuyper (Latin: Cuperus) (1629,
Amsterdam
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— 21 October 1691,
Rotterdam
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) was a Dutch
Socinian
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writer and printer.
Life
First a
Remonstrant
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minister at
Vlaardingen
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Geog ...
, he left the church on his objection to infant baptism. From 1663–1673 he opened a publishing house in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
and
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...
producing Socinian works, including 1665–1668 (with supplement 1692) the ''
Biblioteca fratrum Polonorum
The ''Bibliotheca antitrinitariorum'', or ''Antitrinitarian Library'', first published in 1684, is a posthumously published work of Christopher Sandius (English: Christopher Sand), an exiled Prussian Antitrinitarian in Amsterdam, who chronologicall ...
''. In 1676 he published against
Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, ...
's 1670 treatise on historical criticism of the Scriptures.
Kuyper played a leading part in the liberal movement of the
Mennonites
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named the "
Collegiants
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", through which some Socinian ideas entered Mennonitism. Kuyper was one of the most active native Dutch Socinians along with
Jan Pietersz Beelthouwer (c.1603–1665), Lancelot van Brederode (c.1583–1668), Johannes Becius (1626–1690), David Willemszoon Redoch (c.1633–1680), Jan Cornelisz Knol (d.1672), Adriaan Swartepaard (1641–1691), and Foecke Floris (d.1703). In the period 1660–1664 a dispute in the Mennonite movement over the Socinian sympathies of
Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan, lead to a split between "Zonist" and "Lamist" Mennonites. Socinianism briefly resurfaced in the 1740s when the Mennonite minister Johannes Stinstra (1708–1790) was suspended 1742–1757 for advocating tolerance of Socinian views.
Works
* CUPERUS, Franciscus, ''Arcana atheismi revelata, examine Tractatus Theologico-Politici''.
Rotterdam
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. A large part of this work is dedicated to a refutation of the 4th chapter of
Spinoza
Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, ...
's Tractatus theologico-politicus of 1670
[see Dunin-Borkowski in Chron. Spin. IV, 112 ft.]
as editor:
* Danielis Breenii (Daniël van Breen) opera theologica ed. by F. Cuperus (Frans Kuyper) 1666
posthumous:
* Johann Wolfgang Jäger – ''Franciscus Cuperus mala fide aut ad minimum frigide atheismum Spinozae oppugnans'' 1710
See also
*
Johannes Bredenburg
*
Henry More
Henry More (; 12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.
Biography
Henry was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on 12 October 1614. He was the seventh son of Alexander More, mayor of Gran ...
References
External links
* http://poortman.kb.nl/long2.php?TABEL=T_NAAM&ID=1893
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1629 births
1691 deaths
Remonstrants
Dutch Unitarians
Dutch writers
Writers from Amsterdam