Albert Gootjes
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Philosophy
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Albert Gootjes obtained his Ph.D. in historical theology from Calvin Theological Seminary (Grand Rapids, MI) in 2012, spending nearly three years doing archival work in Geneva at the Institut d'histoire de la Réformation. His research focused on developments in seventeenth-century French Protestantism, particularly the so-called 'Saumur theology'. His dissertation was published under the title Claude Pajon (1626-1685) and the Academy of Saumur: The First Controversy over Grace (Leiden: Brill, 2014). In 2014 he joined the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University as a postdoctoral researcher in the 'Spinoza's Web'-project led by prof.dr. Piet Steenbakkers and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). He is currently working on an intellectual biography of the physician, philosopher and theologian Lambertus van Velthuysen (1622-1685) and his Utrecht Cartesian network (i.e., the 'Collegie der sçavanten') in the context of their relationship to Spinoza.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Publications
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A.J. Gootjes (06.05.2016) How to Refute the Theological-Political Treatise? The Anti-Spinoza Campaign of the Utrecht Cartesians
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Gootjes, A.J. (2016). Sources inédites sur Spinoza: la correspondance entre Johannes Bouwmeester et Johannes Georgius Graevius. Archives de Philosophie, 79 (4), (pp. 817-819) (3 p.). This brief text appeared in the "Bulletin de bibliographie spinoziste" of the Archives de philosophie..
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Gootjes, A.J. (2017). Review of Alexander X. Douglas, Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism: Philosophy and Theology (O.U.P., 2015). Church History and Religious Culture, 97 (1), (pp. 139-141) (3 p.).
