The Truth of the Christian Religion with Jean Le Clerc's Notes and Additions

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments The bulk of the work on this edition was done during a period of research leave for which I am grateful to King’s College London. It is a pleasure to record my thanks also to Hamilton Bryson, Noel Malcolm, Maria Grazia and Mario Sina, M. A. Stewart, Stefania Tutino, and Joanna Weinberg for helping me with the identification of some of the most obscure authors and works cited by Grotius and Le Clerc. In this challenging task Richard Hewitt’s “Catalogus Librorum a Grotio et Clerico Laudatorum,” appended to the edition of Grotius’s De Veritate Religionis Christianae published in Oxford in 1807, has provided a valuable starting point. Thank you to Paul Dimmock for checking Hebrew and Ancient Greek words. I am greatly indebted to Knud Haakonssen for his support over the years and for his advice as the general editor of the series of which this volume is part. Thanks are also due to Laura Goetz and Diana Francoeur of Liberty Fund, for being gracious and competent editors, and to the library of Harris Manchester College (Oxford) for allowing me to consult the 1743 edition. As always, the deepest debt of all is to my family. My husband, Howard Hotson, has been my constant intellectual companion, sharing the pleasure of this work and helping me to endure its frustrations when Grotius and Le Clerc’s elusive citations proved difficult to track down. They prompted our son John, however, to try his hand at scholarly work. Our daughters, Sophia and Francesca, might or might not try some other time. To John The truTh of The christian religion ...