 Although Taurellus’s publications in metaphysics can be read as a sustained philosophical defense of the Christian doctrine of creation, his work triggered polemical opposition from orthodox Lutheran theologians (see Feuerlein 1734). Apart from blatantly misguided but highly derogatory allegations of atheism, some of his contemporaries saw a connection between Taurellus’s views and the views of two other controversial thinkers. One of them is the atomistic natural philosopher David Gorlaeus (1591–1612), the other is the Arminian theologian Conrad Vorstius (1569–1622) (Lüthy 2001: 278–286, Lüthy 2012: 122–129, and Lüthy 2018).