Theron en Aspasio of reeks van godvrugtige gesprekken en brieven over de gewichtigste, noodigste, en nuttigste onderwerpen - Hervey, James 1714-1758; Fokke, Simon 1712-1784 (Amsterdam Meijer, 1759)
Originally 'Theron and Aspasio, or A Series of Letters Upon the Most Important and Interesting Subjects' (1755). The publication initiated the second stage of the Calvinistic Controversy, which then took the form of a dispute about the imputed righteousness of Christ. This dispute lasted until 1768 when the expulsion of six Calvinistic Methodist students from the University of Oxford precipitated the third and final stage of the Controversy.
dedicated to Lady Frances (Fanny) Shirley (1707-1778), a famous beauty, and from 1739 devotee of her niece's sect of Calvinistic Methodism, later to be known as Lady Huntingdon's Connexion.
James Hervey (1714-1758) wrote devotional literature in a bombastic style
nicely illustrated with 24 plates engraved by Simon Fokke, title page engraving after Pieter Meyer 1758.
Ex libris R. Baers (stamp)
Door J. Hervey, M. A., bedienaer des H. Evangeliums, en Bestierder van de Stigting te Weston-Favell. Uit het Engelsch vertaald
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); Religion; Moral education; Poetry; Literature; Theology; Music philosophy and esthetics