Contesting The Reformation

Author : C. Scott Dixon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118272305

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Contesting the Reformation by C. Scott Dixon Pdf

Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic study of Reformation historiography Addresses both the English and the Continental debates on Reformation history Provides a thematic approach which takes in the main trends in modern Reformation history Draws on the most recent publications relating to Reformation studies Considers the social, political, cultural, and intellectual implications of the Reformation and the associated literature

Author : Arthur Geoffrey Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Counter-Reformation
ISBN : UOM:39015031605754

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The Counter Reformation by Arthur Geoffrey Dickens Pdf

The reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century was historically as important as the contemporary Protestant Reformation. Though never committed solely to fighting Protestantism, it inevitably also became a Counter Reformation, since it soon faced the threat created by Luther and his successors. The century between the career of Ignatius Loyola and that of Vincent de Paul became a classic age of Catholicism. The lives of its saints, popes and secular champions could hardly be made more fascinating by any novelist. While paying due attention to the great characters, the author also considers the broader political, social and cultural features of the Counter Reformation. A.G. Dickens is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of London.

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216162667

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Voices of the Reformation by John A. Wagner Pdf

This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accounts—in their own words—of those who initiated, advanced, or lived through the Reformation. Starting in 1500, Europe transformed from a united Christendom into a continent bitterly divided between Catholicism and Protestantism by the end of the century. This illuminating text reveals what happened during that period by presenting the social, religious, economic, political, and cultural life of the European Reformation of the 16th century in the words of those who lived through it. Detailed and comprehensive, the work includes 60 primary source documents that shed light on the character, personalities, and events of that time and provides context, questions, and activities for successfully incorporating these documents into academic research and reading projects. A special section provides guidelines for better evaluating and understanding primary documents. Topics include late medieval religion, Martin Luther, reformation in Germany and the Peasants' War, the rise of Calvinism, and the English Reformation.

Author : Benjamin M. Guyer,Lecturer in History and Philosophy Benjamin M Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : England
ISBN : 9780192865724

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How the English Reformation Was Named by Benjamin M. Guyer,Lecturer in History and Philosophy Benjamin M Guyer Pdf

How the English Reformation was Named analyses the shifting semantics of 'reformation' in England between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally denoting the intended aim of church councils, 'reformation' was subsequently redefined to denote violent revolt, and ultimately a series of past episodes in religious history. But despite referring to sixteenth-century religious change, the proper noun 'English Reformation' entered the historical lexicon only during the British civil wars of the 1640s. Anglican apologists coined this term to defend the Church of England against proponents of the Scottish Reformation, an event that contemporaries singled out for its violence and illegality. Using their neologism to denote select events from the mid-Tudor era, Anglicans crafted a historical narrative that enabled them to present a pristine vision of the English past, one that endeavoured to preserve amidst civil war, regicide, and political oppression. With the restoration of the monarchy and the Church of England in 1660, apologetic narrative became historiographical habit and, eventually, historical certainty.

Author : VolkswagenStiftung,,German Historical Institute, Library,Bridget Heal,Anorthe Wetzel
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647552583

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Radicalism and Dissent in the World of Protestant Reform by VolkswagenStiftung,,German Historical Institute, Library,Bridget Heal,Anorthe Wetzel Pdf

This volume of essays explores the themes of radicalism and dissent within Protestantism. The comparisons highlight the contingent nature of particular settlements and narratives, and reveal the extent to which the definition of religious radicalism was dependent upon immediate context and show that radicalism and dissent were truly transnational phenomena. The historiography of the so-called radical reformation has been unduly shaped by the hostile categories imposed by mainstream or magisterial reformers during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This volume argues that scholars should adopt an open-ended understanding of evangelical reform, and recognize that the boundaries between radicalism and its opposite were not always firmly drawn. The distinction between the two is an inheritance of the Lutheran Reformation of the 1520s, which shaped not only the later course of the Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire but also attitudes towards and writings on religious dissent in the Netherlands and England. Radical critique is immanent within mainstream Protestantism, in a faith that emphasizes the power of the gospel with its unrelenting demands.

Author : Susan Guinn-Chipman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317321392

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Religious Space in Reformation England by Susan Guinn-Chipman Pdf

The dissolution of the monasteries in England during the 1530s began a turbulent period of religious restructuring. Focusing on the counties of Wiltshire and Cheshire, Guinn-Chipman looks at the changing nature of religion over the next two centuries.

Author : Anthony Milton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107196452

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England's Second Reformation by Anthony Milton Pdf

This compelling new history situates the religious upheavals of the civil war years within the broader history of the Church of England and demonstrates how, rather than a destructive aberration, this period is integral to (and indeed the climax of) England's post-Reformation history.

Author : Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108829991

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Memory and the English Reformation by Alexandra Walsham,Brian Cummings,Ceri Law,Bronwyn Wallace Pdf

Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.

Author : Arthur G. Diokens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:466328383

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The Counter Reformation by Arthur G. Diokens Pdf

Author : Michael Reeves
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783594566

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Why the Reformation Still Matters by Michael Reeves Pdf

On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the castle church door in Wittenberg. More than any other event, this has the best claim to be the starting gun that set the Reformation in motion. Five hundred years later, the Reformation still has important things to say. In this clear, incisive and accessible survey, Michael Reeves and Tim Chester show how the Reformation helps us answer questions like: How do we know what’s true? Can we truly know God? How does God speak? What’s wrong with us? How can we be saved? Who am I? That many people today find the Reformation strange and remote exposes our preoccupation with this material world and this momentary life. If there is a world beyond this world, and a life beyond this life, then it doesn’t seem to matter very much to us. At its heart, the Reformation was a dispute about how we know God and how we can be right with him. At stake was our eternal future - and it still is.

Author : Ivan Strenski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226777368

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Contesting Sacrifice by Ivan Strenski Pdf

From the counter-reformation through the twentieth century, the notion of sacrifice has played a key role in French culture and nationalist politics. Ivan Strenski traces the history of sacrificial thought in France, starting from its origins in Roman Catholic theology. Throughout, he highlights not just the dominant discourse on sacrifice but also the many competing conceptions that contested it. Strenski suggests that the annihilating spirituality rooted in the Catholic model of Eucharistic sacrifice persuaded the judges in the Dreyfus Case to overlook or play down his possible innocence because a scapegoat was needed to expiate the sins of France and save its army from disgrace. Strenski also suggests that the French army's strategy in World War I, French fascism, and debates over public education and civic morals during the Third Republic all owe much to Catholic theology of sacrifice and Protestant reinterpretations of it. Pointing out that every major theorist of sacrifice is French, including Bataille, Durkheim, Girard, Hubert, and Mauss, Strenski argues that we cannot fully understand their work without first taking into account the deep roots of sacrificial thought in French history.

Author : Wietse de Boer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004472235

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Art in Dispute by Wietse de Boer Pdf

A re-examinination of the Catholic Church’s response to Reformation-era iconoclasm by reconstructing debates about sacred images held in the fifteen years preceding the Council of Trent’s image decree (1563). The volume contains editions and translations of the original texts.

Author : Mary Ann Kelty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020264648

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Times of Trial: being a brief narrative of the progress of the Reformation, and of the sufferings of some of the Reformers by Mary Ann Kelty Pdf

Author : Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Raisa Maria Toivo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319323855

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Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup,Raisa Maria Toivo Pdf

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what ‘went before’, as well as what ‘came after’. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft. In addition, the geographical pattern of similarities and diversities suggests a comparative approach, transcending confessional as well as national borders. Throughout the medieval and early modern period, the orthodoxy of the Christian Church was continuously contested. The challenge of heterodoxy, especially as expressed in various kinds of heresy, magic and witchcraft, was constantly present during the period 1200-1650. Neither contesters nor followers of orthodoxy were homogeneous groups or fractions. They themselves and their ideas changed from one century to the next, from region to region, even from city to city, but within a common framework of interpretation. This collection of essays focuses on this complex.

Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198702535

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The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England by Martin Heale Pdf

Election and selection -- Abbots and priors in their community -- Abbots and priors as administrators -- Living standards and display -- Abbots and priors in public life -- The external relations and reputation of the late medieval superior -- The early sixteenth century -- Dissolution, opposition, accommodation -- Epilogue : the afterlives of abbots and priors in Reformation England