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g. CONCILIATION MOVEMENT AND JOHN DURIE. 289
9. MOVEMENT FOR AN EVANGELICAL CONFEDERATION.
DAVID PAREUS (1548 1622). HUGO GROTIUS
(15831645). GEORGE CALIXTUS (15861656).
JOHN DURIE (1596 1680). His CONNECTION
WITH ENGLISH BISHOPS, DAVENANT, ETC. His
VISIT TO SWEDEN (1636 1638). DAVENANT s
LITTLE BOOK. DURIE s ILL SUCCESS. QUARREL
WITH RUDBECKIUS. THE CLERGY DEMAND HIS
EXPULSION. AFTER-EFFECTS ON PRUSSIA.
We have now to turn our attention to a widespread
movement in Northern and Western Europe towards a
confederation in religious matters between the Evangelical
Churches, and especially towards a softening of the anta
gonism between Lutherans and Calvinists, in which
Sweden was now invited to take a part. To many States
men and theologians in the seventeenth century such a
confederation seemed a most natural and necessary out
come of the struggle against the counter-reformation to
which the forces of Protestantism were called, especially
within the limits of the German Empire. Gustavus
Adolphus strongly favoured this movement during the
latter part of his reign, and his daughter, Queen Christina,
was imbued with the same ideas by her beloved tutor,
Johannes Matthiae, who was the leader of the movement in
Sweden.
It is interesting to recall the names of some of the
eminent foreign theologians, who, following in the steps of
Bucer, co-operated at this time to urge German and
Swedish theologians to relax the stiffness of their Lutheran
orthodoxy. First I may name the gentle Heidelberg pro
fessor, David Wangler (1548 1622), who, according to the
fashion of the day, Grecized his name to Pareus. From
his residence in the Palatinate he had opportunities of mak
ing the acquaintance of the Princess Katarina, sister of
Gustavus Adolphus, who was married to his friend and
protector, the Pfalzgraf Johann Casimir. It was to
Gustavus that he addressed his Irenicum : sive de unione
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