User talk:Pygmäus

Christian Francken
Those were well informed additions, thank you. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:22, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I worked some years on my PhD-thesis about Francken in Hungary, Germany and Romania (and through my catholic agents in Rome:-)). My thesis was published in German, see Simon: Religionsphilosophie..., Wiesbaden 2008. Francken's most interesting ideas go beyond the spectrum of confessionalism, and formulate an experiment of thought towards atheism. I tried to reconstruct this line of thought in his manuscripts of his second teaching period in Cluj/Transylvania in the 1590ies. However, we have the FIRST textual evidence for argumentative atheism of Europe in these manuscripts, if I am right.  best wishes, pygmäus
 * Very interesting; thanks moreso. I am interested in exactly such sources. Much of the old material in English on Dávid Ferenc and his circle has the dubious look of the same 19thC revisionist glaze which distorted the image of Sozzini, Przypkowski etc. Unfortunately the materials of the Unitárius Egyház are a closed book to most western-Europeans as Hungarian is somehow less accessible than Latin/German/Polish. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)