Friedrich Spanheim the Younger (1 May 1632 – 18 May 1701) was a German

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theologian of conservative views, son of

Friedrich Spanheim Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden. Life He entered in 1614 the University of Heidelberg where he studied philology and philosophy, a ...

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Life

He was born in

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, and studied at the

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, graduating M.A. in 1648. He joined the faculty of the

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in 1655. In 1670 he moved to

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, replacing the late

Johannes Cocceius Johannes Cocceius (also Coccejus; ; 9 August 1603 – 5 November 1669) was a Dutch theologian born in Bremen. Life After studying at Hamburg and the University of Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 1630 profess ...

as Professor of theology. Spanheim emphasised the study of church history. His theological position was expressed in dogmatic and polemical terms, as he took on

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, the followers of Cocceius and

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s. Spanheim encouraged the Voetians to stamp their orthodoxy on the Leiden theological faculty, and in 1676 pushed for the publication of 20 deprecated positions, marking out the Cocceian/Cartesian views. In the university

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, Wittichius and

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resisted strongly, and Heidanus lost his position. In the longer term, however, the Voetian victory was pyrrhic, in that Cartesianism quite soon prevailed.

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, ''Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750'' (2001), pp. 28–9. Spanheim died in 1701 in Leiden.

Works

His collected works were published as ''Opera'' (1701–3).

Notes

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