Salomon van Til
Salomon van Til (28 December 1643, in Weesp – 31 October 1713, in Leiden) was a theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church and a leading theological thinker of the post-Cocceius era.
Background
Van Til was born in
Theological career
Having completed his studies in 1666, van Til became a pastor in
On 6 May 1702 he became a professor at Leiden University and the following 13 June he received an honorary doctorate from that institution. In 1704 or 1705 he became rector Alma Mata. In 1710 he had a stroke, after which he was paralysed. He died three years later.
Van Til was married twice. His first wife, Maria van Tethrode, died after 30 years of marriage in 1697. He then remarried Agatha Catharina Molenschot († 1708). His daughter Maria married Benjamin van Hess, a minister himself. His daughter Barbara married Jeronymus Jacob van Thulden, a politician from Raamsdonk. His sone Jan Rochus van Til became a diplomat in Lisbon and Cologne.
References
- Karl, Barth (2004). Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God. A&C Black. ISBN 9780567050694.
- Arie Jan Gelderblom, Jan L. De Jong, Marc Van Vaeck (2004). The Low Countries As a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs. ISBN 9004122885.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Mangold, Matthias (2014). "Salomon van Til (1643–1713): His Appropriation of Cartesian Tenets in His Compendium of Natural Theology". Church History and Religious Culture. 94 (3): 337–357. .
- Werner Raupp: Art. Salomon van Til (1643–1713), in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, Bd. 12, Herzberg: Bautz 1997, cols. 81–83 (with selected bibliography).
- Van Eijnatten, Joris (2003). Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces: Religious Toleration and the Public in the Eighteenth-Century Netherlands. ISBN 9004128433.
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