Between Theology, Early Modern Science and Political Correspondence: The Socinian Exchange of Letters

索西尼亚书信的数字收集为研究欧洲跨忏悔斗争提供了基础，以求在神学、早期现代科学和政治之间取得新的平衡。该集涵盖了约1580年至约1740年的时期，因此提供了从忏悔主义时代到启蒙运动时期的过程信息。已编目的2.094封信寄给了其他索西尼亚人或其他忏悔的学者，反映了宗教主题的历史化、合理化方法、早期现代科学问题及其方法论和政治信件之间的复杂相互依存关系。此外，索契尼亚书信还提供了对涵盖欧洲大部分地区的学术网络的宝贵见解。目前还没有适合研究的完整的、具有历史批判性的索西尼亚书信收藏。DFG的资金帮助识别所有这些信件，并将它们纳入数字收藏。除了文本批判性评论、关于主题的评论和内容说明之外，数字文集还通过收录文本的系统关键词，提供基于地理、个人和专题的评价选择的好处。此外，该文集还收录了随信附上的天文现象的图形描述，其中大部分是以铜版雕刻的形式出版的，并说明了信件中讨论的主题。以前未公开的政治报告，其中有400多封信，也得到了同样的对待。通过这种方式，这些藏书为开启神学史、哲学史、科学史和文化史等新的跨学科研究领域创造了主要的来源先决条件。

The digital collection of Socinian correspondence provides a basis of primary sources for researching the transconfessional struggle in Europe for a new balance between theology, early modern science and politics. The collection covers the period from ca. 1580 to ca. 1740, and thus provides information on processes from the age of Confessionalism to the Enlightenment period. The 2.094 letters that have been catalogued, which were addressed to other Socinians or to scholars of other confessions, reflect the complex interdependencies between historicizing, rationalizing approaches to religious subject matter, early modern scientific questions and their methodology, and political correspondence. Additionally, the Socinian correspondence provides valuable insights into the scholarly networks which encompassed large parts of Europe. There is currently no complete historical-critical collection of the Socinian correspondence suitable for research. The funding of DFG helps to identify all of these letters and incorporate them into the digital collection. In addition to textual-critical commentaries, commentaries on the subject matter and content descriptions, the digital collection offers the benefits of evaluation options based on geography, individual persons and topics by means of the systematic keywording of the included texts. Additionally, the collection incorporate graphical depictions of astronomical phenomena which were enclosed with the letters, most of which were published in the form of copperplate engravings, and which illustrate the subject matter discussed in the correspondence. The previously unpublicized political reports, which were enclosed with well over 400 letters, are treated in the same way. In this way, the collection creates the primary source prerequisites for the opening of new interdisciplinary fields of research for theological history, philosophical history, the history of science, and cultural history.