Reformation In The Western World

Author : Privatdozent Dr Theol Paul Silas Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1481315072

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Reformation in the Western World by Privatdozent Dr Theol Paul Silas Peterson Pdf

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a catalyst for the transformation of Western culture. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas Peterson shows how the retrieval of the ancient Christian teachings about God's grace and the authority of Scripture influenced culture, society, and the political order. The emphasis on an egalitarian church--the priesthood of all believers--led to a more egalitarian society. In the long run, the Reformation encouraged the emergence of modern freedoms, religious tolerance, capitalism, democracy, the natural sciences, and the disenchantment of the papacy and worldly means of grace. Yet the egalitarian fruit of the Reformation was not uniform, as is seen in the persecution of detractors and Jews, and in the marginalization of women. In all its triumphs and innovations, evils and errors, the Reformation left a lasting double legacy--a divided church in need of unity and the possibilities of a liberated world.

Author : Paul Silas Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1481305530

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Reformation in the Western World by Paul Silas Peterson Pdf

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a catalyst for the transformation of Western culture. In Reformation in the Western World, Paul Silas Peterson shows how the retrieval of the ancient Christian teachings about God's grace and the authority of Scripture influenced culture, society, and the political order. The emphasis on an egalitarian church--the "priesthood of all believers"--led to a more egalitarian society. In the long run, the Reformation encouraged the emergence of modern freedoms, religious tolerance, capitalism, democracy, the natural sciences, and the disenchantment of the papacy and worldly means of grace. Yet the egalitarian fruit of the Reformation was not uniform, as is seen in the persecution of detractors and Jews, and in the marginalization of women. In all its triumphs and innovations, evils and errors, the Reformation left a lasting double legacy--a divided church in need of unity and the possibilities of a liberated world.

Author : Brad S. Gregory
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674264076

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The Unintended Reformation by Brad S. Gregory Pdf

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.

Author : Paul Silas Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351390422

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The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World by Paul Silas Peterson Pdf

While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and responses to one of the most complicated and controversial issues regarding the global transformation of Christianity today: the decline of "established Christianity" in the Western world. It also addresses the future of Christianity in the West after the decline. Drawing upon historical research, sociology, religious studies, philosophy and theology, an international panel of contributors provide new theoretical frameworks for understanding this decline and offer creative suggestions for responding to it. "Established Christianity" is conceptualized as historically, culturally, socially and politically embedded religion (with or without official established status). This is a dynamic volume that gives fresh perspective on one of the great social changes taking place in the West today. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars of religious sociology, history and anthropology, as well as theologians.

Author : William Stanford Reid
Publisher : Zondervan Publishing Company
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005149474

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John Calvin, His Influence in the Western World by William Stanford Reid Pdf

Author : R. Po-chia Hsia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405178655

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A Companion to the Reformation World by R. Po-chia Hsia Pdf

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation. Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas. Takes a broad, inclusive approach – covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024564

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Religious Refugees in the Early Modern World by Nicholas Terpstra Pdf

This book examines the emergence of the religious refugee as a mass phenomenon from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It considers how Europeans pictured a range of threats as social contagions and how they dealt with these threats by purging ideas, objects, and people.

Author : Carlos M. N. Eire
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 9780300111927

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Reformations by Carlos M. N. Eire Pdf

TWENTY-THREE. The Age of Devils -- TWENTY-FOUR. The Age of Reasonable Doubt -- TWENTY-FIVE. The Age of Outcomes -- TWENTY-SIX. The Spirit of the Age -- EPILOGUE. Assessing the Reformations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z

Author : Anthony D. Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351892223

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The Counter-Reformation by Anthony D. Wright Pdf

Modern scholarship has effectively demonstrated that, far from being a knee-jerk reaction to the challenges of Protestantism, the Catholic Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was fuelled primarily by a desire within the Church to reform its medieval legacy and to re-enthuse its institutions with a sense of religious zeal. In many ways, both the Protestant and Catholic Reformations were inspired by the same humanist ideals and though ultimately expressed in different ways, the origins of both movements can be traced back to the patristic revival of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that many contemporaries, and subsequent historians, came to view the Catholic Reformation as an attempt to challenge the Protestants and to cut the ground from beneath their feet. In this new revised edition of Dr Wright's groundbreaking study of the Counter-Reformation, the wide panoply of the Catholic Reformation is spread out and analysed within the political, religious, philosophical, scientific and cultural context of late medieval and early modern Europe. In so doing, this book provides a fascinating guide to the many doctrinal and interrelated social issues involved in the wholesale restructuring of religion that took place both within Western Europe and overseas.

Author : Amele Ekue,Frieder Ludwig,Mirjam Laaser,Wilhelm Richebacher,Pui Yee Pong
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Protestantism
ISBN : 3447112921

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Reformation in the Context of World Christianity by Amele Ekue,Frieder Ludwig,Mirjam Laaser,Wilhelm Richebacher,Pui Yee Pong Pdf

The 500th anniversary of Luther's 95 theses in 2017 was the first such commemoration in which the global dimensions of the reformation were highlighted. This volume - the outcome of a conference held at the Fachhochschule fur Interkulturelle Theologie Hermannsburg in June 2016 - reflects theological, political and social interactions between Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe and explores new ways in which Reformation and World Christianity can be connected. It also analyzes negotiation processes in selected countries, focussing especially on the role of churches in social development, transformation processes and international discourses.

Author : J. H. Hexter,Peter N. Riesenberg,Franklin Lewis Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751212950

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The Traditions of the Western World by J. H. Hexter,Peter N. Riesenberg,Franklin Lewis Ford Pdf

Author : Martin Luther
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9354946070

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Martin Luther's 95 Theses by Martin Luther Pdf

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385495585

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Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning News This was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful princes and armies—and of unprecedented courage, as thousands refused to bow their heads to the religious pieties of the past. In these exquisitely written and lavishly illustrated pages, Cahill illuminates, as no one else can, the great gift-givers who shaped our history—those who left us a world more varied and complex, more awesome and delightful, more beautiful and strong than the one they had found.

Author : Rob Sorensen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783084425

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Martin Luther and the German Reformation by Rob Sorensen Pdf

A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book covers Luther’s life, work as a reformer, theological development, and long-term influence. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws connections between his life and teachings and the modern day world. Intended for use by students, the book assumes no initial familiarity with Luther and would be ideal for any interested person who wants to get to know Martin Luther; one of the key figures in European history.

Author : Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 907 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674040564

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by Frank Edward MANUEL,Fritzie Prigohzy Manuel,Frank Edward Manuel Pdf

The authors have structured five centuries of utopian invention by identifying successive constellations, groups of thinkers joined by common social and moral concerns. Within this framework they analyze individual writings, in the context of the author's life and of the socio-economic, religious, and political exigencies of his time.