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BEKKER, BALTHASAR (16341698)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 661 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BEKKER, BALTHASAR (16341698) , Dutch divine, was born in
Friesland
  in 1634, and educated at
Groningen
 , under Jacob
Alting
 , and at Franeker. He was pastor at Franeker, and from1679, at
Amsterdam
 . An enthusiastic
disciple
  of Descartes, he wrote several works in philosophy and theology, which by their freedom of thought aroused considerable hostility. His best known
work
  was Die Betooverde Wereld (1691), or The World Bewitched (1695; one volume of an
English
 
translation
  from a French copy), in which he examined critically the phenomena generally ascribed to spiritual agency, and attacked the belief in sorcery and " possession " by the devil, whose very existence he questioned. The book is interesting as an early study in
comparative
  religion, but its publication in 1692 led to
Bekker
 's deposition from the ministry. He died at
Amsterdam
 .


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