1. Discipline and Order -- 2. 'To Remain in Christian Freedom' -- 3. Social Divisions, Religious Divisions -- 4. Politics of Theocracy, 1580-1590 -- 5. From Reaction to Resolution, 1590-1610 -- 6. Remonstrant Controversy, 1610-1620 -- 7. Unity in a Multiconfessional Society -- Appendix: List of Ministers Serving the Reformed Congregations of Utrecht, 1578-1618
Summary
Why did the Netherlands, after the Dutch Reformation, emerge as the most religiously tolerant country in Europe? This study claims that the causes lie in the struggle between the Calvinist desire to create a highly organized, disciplined church, and the broad, nonconformist "libertine" alternative