id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-186 Frederik van Leenhof - Wikipedia .html text/html 2392 210 63 Frederik van Leenhof (1 September 1647 – 13 October 1715)[1][2] was a Dutch pastor and philosopher active in Zwolle, who caused an international controversy because of his Spinozist work Heaven on Earth (1703). Whilst studying his religion and exploring modern ethics during his second period of writing (1700–04), Leenhof came into contact with the early Enlightenment, which originated in the Dutch Republic around 1650. Leenhof's book Heaven on Earth, published simultaneously in Zwolle and Amsterdam in June 1703, is written completely in Spinozist (pantheist) thought, although he always denied being an adherent of the then hugely controversial Spinoza. Finally, the deadlock in the States of Overijssel was resolved in March 1709, when the majority ruled against the wish of Zwolle that Leenhof had to sign additional Articles of Satisfaction drafted by the synod to utterly repudiate Spinozism. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-186.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-186.txt