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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... worship was established from Aberdeen to Alba-Julia and from Béarn to Brest-Litovsk. Soon, the colonizing efforts of England and the Nether- lands would carry it to North America and South Africa as well. This dynamic faith inspired ...
... worship was established from Aberdeen to Alba-Julia and from Béarn to Brest-Litovsk. Soon, the colonizing efforts of England and the Nether- lands would carry it to North America and South Africa as well. This dynamic faith inspired ...
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... worship believed to threaten the purity of God's ordinances . The political history of later sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Europe is incomprehensible without an understanding of the history of Calvinism and the reasons its spread ...
... worship believed to threaten the purity of God's ordinances . The political history of later sixteenth- and seventeenth- century Europe is incomprehensible without an understanding of the history of Calvinism and the reasons its spread ...
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... worship and church life in ways that displayed more local varia- tions and nuances than historians have yet been able to map. As they shaped and argued over these alterations, the leading evangelical theologians defined more clearly not ...
... worship and church life in ways that displayed more local varia- tions and nuances than historians have yet been able to map. As they shaped and argued over these alterations, the leading evangelical theologians defined more clearly not ...
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... worship and willingness to accept practices that might lack biblical sanction but nonetheless did not appear to him to contradict the es- sence of the Gospel ; his commitment to a literal understanding of Christ's words to his disciples ...
... worship and willingness to accept practices that might lack biblical sanction but nonetheless did not appear to him to contradict the es- sence of the Gospel ; his commitment to a literal understanding of Christ's words to his disciples ...
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... worship. Zurich, Geneva, and the refugee churches offered such people three distinct models of how such an alternative might be structured. Finally, and most important, the majority of the key features that ensured that it would be the ...
... worship. Zurich, Geneva, and the refugee churches offered such people three distinct models of how such an alternative might be structured. Finally, and most important, the majority of the key features that ensured that it would be the ...
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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 |
Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism Philip Benedict Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2008 |
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