The Learned Doctor William Ames

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Dutch Backgrounds of English and American Puritanism Written by Keith L. Sprunger Who was William Ames, an English Puritan theologian who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic? In an article in Dort University's scholarly periodical professor Jan van Vliet has this to say about him: "Stripped of his academic...

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Dutch Backgrounds of English and American Puritanism

Written by Keith L. Sprunger

Who was William Ames, an English Puritan theologian who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic? In an article in Dort University's scholarly periodical professor Jan van Vliet has this to say about him: "Stripped of his academic degrees at the University of Cambridge in 1610 for refusing to relent of a “rigid” sort of Puritanism, (William) Ames set off for the refreshingly freer intellectual climes of the United Provinces. After brief sojourns in The Hague, Leiden, and Dordrecht, where he was advisor to the president of that great synod (1618), he was appointed to the faculty of the Franeker Academy (in Friesland) in 1620. It was from this intellectual backwater that Ames wielded tremendous power and influence from study and lectern and, occasionally, from pulpit. With the likes of Ames on its faculty, however, the reputation of Franeker rapidly and ever so briefly came to rival the better-known and prestigious University of Leiden. Indeed, it was to this geographical outpost of early modern Europe that the brightest students from all corners of Europe gravitated. Interestingly, one Rene Descartes enrolled April 16, 1629, surely among the most famous of Franeker’s early seventeenth-century students. It was in Franeker, right under the nose of Ames, that Descartes composed his Meditations (while Discourse was written in Leeuwarden, the capital of Friesland)...." Order the book for a suburb history on the Reformed Churches most people still need to read about.

Paperback, 304 pages, notes, bibliography, indexes of persons and subjects and places