John Dury

See also: Dury

Dury John (or Durie, Lasted or Duraeus) (1599/1600 - September 26th, 1680), Theologist and Pasteur of Scottish origin .

Known especially for its many attempts at meeting of the Protesting S Europeans, task to which it devoted all its existence as from 1628. Influenced by the school of the ramism and by the Utopias of the beginning of the century (of which those of Bacon, Campanella or Johann Valentine Andreae), he especially sought to induce a methodical analysis of the disunion and developed various irenic methods to mitigate the separation of the Protestants, mainly directed towards a practical Christianisme.

One owes him various reflections as regards Herméneutique, which evolved/moved with time, and a reform project of pedagogy and teaching of theology aiming at more academic piety and less arguments. It is located thus upstream Piétisme and at is crossed influences of Johannes Arndt and William Ames.

Father of the contemporary oecumenism, a friendly time of Grotius and in contact with Descartes, it was with Samuel Hartlib (1600-1662) and Johann Amos Comenius (1592-1670) one of the members of the circle of English intellectuals at the origin of the Royal Society whose his/her son-in-law, Henry Oldenbourg, friend of Spinoza, were the first secretary.

Literature

J.M. Batten, John Dury, Advocate off Christian Reunion , Chicago, Chicago University Near, 1944;
G.H. Turnbull, Hartlib, Dury and Comenius, Gleaning from Hartlib' S Papers , Liverpool-London, Liverpool University Near, 1947;
A. Milton, " " The Unchanged Peacemaker? " John Dury and the politics off irenicism in England, 1628-1643" , in Mr. Greengrass and alii (ED.), Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation. Studies in intellectual Communication , Cambridge, Cambridge University Near, 1994, p. 95-117;
S. Mandelbrote, " John Dury and the Practice off Irenism" , in NR. Aston (ED.), Religious Changes in Europe (1650-1914), Essays for John McManners , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997, p. 41-58.

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