Leibniz's Concept of Substance and his Reception of John Calvin's Doctrine of the Eucharist.
Leibniz saw the question of the eucharist as a crucial stumbling block to the agreement between Lutherans and Calvinists. Mandated together with Daniel Ernst Jablonsky to prepare working documents for the negotiations between Hanover and Brandenburg in 1697, Leibniz carefully read through the Calvin...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 19; no. 5; pp. 917 - 934 |
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