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Adam Boreel (2 November 1602, Middelburg – 20 June 1665, Sloterdijk, Amsterdam) was a Dutch theologian and Hebraist. He was one of the founders of the Amsterdam College; the Collegiants were also often called Boreelists.Andrew Cooper Fix, Prophecy and Reason: The Dutch Collegiants in the Early Enlightenment, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991, p. 45Margaret Lewis Bailey, John Milton and Jakob Boehme, A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth Century England, New York: Haskell House, 1964 (first published 1914), p. 90Adriaan Koerbagh, A Light Shining in Dark Places, to Illuminate the Main Questions of Theology and Religion, Michiel Wielma, ed. & trans., Leiden NLD: Brill, 2011 (originally published in Amsterdam, 1668), p. 12 Others involved in the Collegiants were William Ames, Daniel van Breen, Michiel Coomans, Jacob Otto van Halmael and the Mennonite Galenus Abrahamsz de Haan.
Boreel's associates included Peter Serrarius, a fellow Millenarianism, Baruch Spinoza, who moved with the Collegiants after exclusion from the Amsterdam Jewish community, and Henry Oldenburg, a correspondent. Boreel was close also to John Dury. They were a fringe group, but are considered important as representative of the 'Third Force', trying to reconcile religious orthodoxy with scientific scepticism.Jonathan Israel, The Dutch Republic (1995), pp. 587-591. In the early 1660s the Collegiants became harder to distinguish from other movements, of , , and .Israel, p. 913. Adam Boreel is reputed to be the author of Lucerna Super Candelabrum ( The Light upon the Candlestick, 1663), a mystical text accepted by both the Collegiants and the Quakers.William Sewel, The history of the rise, increase, and progress of the Christian people called Quakers, Third Edition, Philadelphia: Samuel Keimer, 1728 p. 16
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