Herman Venema. Een Nederlandse theoloog in de tijd der verlichting

The life of Herman Venema (1697 - 1787) is almost conterminous with the period in European civilisation which is usually called ,,Enlightenment": it seems as if new light is shed upon the world and its phenomena. Reason, in bygone times a medium to arrange the fundamental and incontestable truth into rational structures, is now used as an instrument to probe critically the manifold manifestations of man and nature, hampered neither by preconceived principles nor by dogmas. . Zie: Summary