Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of CalvinismYale University Press, 1 okt. 2008 - 704 sidor This sweeping and eminently readable book is the first synthetic history of Calvinism in almost fifty years. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from its birth in the cities of Switzerland to the unraveling of orthodoxy amid the new intellectual currents of the seventeenth century. As befits a pan-European movement, Benedict’s canvas stretches from the British Isles to Eastern Europe. The course and causes of Calvinism’s remarkable expansion, the inner workings of the diverse national churches, and the theological debates that shaped Reformed doctrine all receive ample attention. The English Reformation is situated within the history of continental Protestantism in a way that reveals the international significance of English developments. A fresh examination of Calvinist worship, piety, and discipline permits an up-to-date assessment of the classic theories linking Calvinism to capitalism and democracy. Benedict not only paints a vivid picture of the greatest early spokesmen of the cause, Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, but also restores many lesser-known figures to their rightful place. Ambitious in conception, attentive to detail, this book offers a model of how to think about the history and significance of religious change across the long Reformation era. |
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... believers with the stark question, Am I among those predestined to salvation or to damnation? and spurred them to live the upright life that devotional writers told them was evidence of their elec- tion. The religious culture of the ...
... believers with the stark question, Am I among those predestined to salvation or to damnation? and spurred them to live the upright life that devotional writers told them was evidence of their elec- tion. The religious culture of the ...
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... believers create churches of their own with these institutions as an alternative to Rome. With Zurich and Geneva offering alternative models of how church and state fit together, the tradi- tion could appeal both to rulers determined to ...
... believers create churches of their own with these institutions as an alternative to Rome. With Zurich and Geneva offering alternative models of how church and state fit together, the tradi- tion could appeal both to rulers determined to ...
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... believers to develop a direct spiritual relationship with God. The invention of printing promoted the circulation of devotional books in the vernacular that spread techniques of self-monitoring intended to help believ- ers make their ...
... believers to develop a direct spiritual relationship with God. The invention of printing promoted the circulation of devotional books in the vernacular that spread techniques of self-monitoring intended to help believ- ers make their ...
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... believers to carry through changes in worship wherever they could on the parish level without tarrying for any. Such views provoked the elector to order his expulsion from Saxony. The significance of the events in Wittenberg for the ...
... believers to carry through changes in worship wherever they could on the parish level without tarrying for any. Such views provoked the elector to order his expulsion from Saxony. The significance of the events in Wittenberg for the ...
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... believers instead. Since there is no immediately evi- dent New Testament foundation for infant baptism, it was inevitable that this issue would arise sooner or later in the course of the evangelical challenge; Zwingli himself ...
... believers instead. Since there is no immediately evi- dent New Testament foundation for infant baptism, it was inevitable that this issue would arise sooner or later in the course of the evangelical challenge; Zwingli himself ...
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PART III THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF A TRADITION | 293 |
PART IV NEW CALVINIST MEN AND WOMEN? | 429 |
Notes | 547 |
Index | 657 |
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Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism Philip Benedict Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2002 |
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