Neue Quäckerey in der Quietisterey

"The theologia mystica has been still more fruitful in the present century and spread [abroad] a pile of Schwärmer [(ein Hauffen Schwärmereyen)].  From this platonic egg were hatched [(hervorgefrochen) untranslated:] the Weigelianer, Rosenkreutzer, neueren Propheten, Stifelianer, Methisten, Hoburgianer, Böhmisten, Widertauffer, Quäcker, Bourignisten, Quietisten, [and] Septenisten. . . . [T]he Quaker Barclay cited the experience of Bernard, Bonaventure, Tauler, Thomas à Kempis, and other mystical teachers."

     Ehregott Daniel Colberg, Platonistich-hermenetisches Christenthum, begreiffend die historische Erzehlung vom Ursprung und vielerley Secten der heutigen Fanatischen Theologie, unterm Namen der Paracelsisten, Weigelianer, Rosencreutzer, Quäcker, Böhmisten, Widertäuffer, Bourignisten, Labadisten and Quietisten (Frankfuhrt:  1690) 1.16 (vol. 1, pp. 75-76).  The reference seems to be to Apology 11.5.  I was put onto this by Bern Roling, “Mittelalterliche Mystik im Kreutzfeuer des Pietismusstreites:  der Wittenberger Theologe Martin Chladni (1669-1725) und seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Frauenmystik des Hochmittelalters, Pietismus und Neuzeit 46/47 (2020/2021):  40 (38-84):

War es Zufall, so hatte Colberg gefragt, das ein Quäker wie Robert Barclay (1648-1690) sich auf Bernhard von Clairvaux (1090-1153) and Bonaventura (1221-1274) hatte befufen können?

Cf. the title cited in n6:  Conrad Tiburtius Rango, Neue Quäckerey in der Quietisterey (Frankfurt:  1688).  For what very little it may be worth, neither Colberg nor Rango are listed in Smith's 1873 Bibliotheca anti-Quakeriana.

Ordo naturae

Universität Wien

"For this reason one may not confuse the phrase order of nature with [the phrase] biological order, much less . . . [(gleichsetzen)] the realities they signify.  Biological order is [only] the order of nature to the degree that [the latter] is amenable to the empirical and descriptive methods of the natural sciences.  But to the extent that the order of nature is a specific order of existence that stands in [an] obvious relation to the causa prima (to God, the Creator), it is no longer a [merely] biological order."

     Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, "Die Bibel queer lesen?  Zu einem umstritten Heft des katholischen Bibelwerks," Communio blog, 29 May 2026.