The decline of “fanaticism” in eighteenth-century Germany, a myth propagated by self-proclaimed proponents of Enlightenment, continues to shape historians’ representations of the ascendancy of “religious” Enlightenment. To discredit this myth and suggest a means of replacing it, this essay departs from the conventional attention to university theology as a history of ideas and proposes adding a book-historical perspective. Its focus is the German Pietist theologian Joachim Lange (1670–1744). Condemned by critics as a “fanatic” by virtue of his alleged intellectual kinship with French Reformed theologian Pierre Poiret (1646–1719), Lange is best known today for his vehement and ultimately ineffectual opposition to Enlightenment’s theological standard-bearers at the University of Halle. But Lange’s kinship with Poiret was only partial, and the stark contrast between the careers of two of Lange’s textbooks reveals that although his theological star was falling by the 1730s, elements of Lange’s ostensibly outmoded theology continued to find an audience into the nineteenth century, through the enormous commercial success of his Latin grammar.

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在18世纪德国驯化宗教“狂热主义”

自称为“启蒙运动”的拥护者传播的一个神话，即“狂热主义”在18世纪德国的衰落继续塑造着历史学家对“宗教”启蒙运动的兴起的表述。为了抹杀这个神话并提出替代它的方法，本文脱离了作为思想史的传统对大学神学的关注，并提出了增加书本历史的观点。它的重点是德国虔诚神学家神学家约阿希姆·兰格（Joachim Lange，1670-1744年）。兰格因与法国改革宗神学家皮埃尔·波瓦（Pierre Poiret）（1646–1719）所谓的知识亲属而被批评家指责为“狂热者”，如今，兰格以其热情和最终无视反对哈雷大学的启蒙运动的神学标准承担者而闻名。 。但是兰格与波瓦的血缘关系只是部分的，