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This work introduces us to the great leader in his fifties, a
personality that was one of the most pungently alive in all
history."
Originally published in 1983.
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Moving beyond earlier explanations of why the Protestant church
opposed the Weimar Republic, David Diephouse emphasizes the social
role of the church rather than its direct political activity.
Originally published in 1987.
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thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved
west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that
Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of
salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three. In Wandering
Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious
groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic
types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by
religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists,
Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in
search of religious and social fulfillment. The other type involved
groups wanting to escape persecution (such as the Mormons) or to
establish communities where they could practice their faith in
peace (such as the Inspirationists). Rohrer concludes that the two
migration types shared certain traits, despite the great variety of
religious beliefs and experiences, and that ""secular"" values
infused the behavior of nearly all Protestant migrants. Religion's
role in transatlantic migrations is well known, but its importance
to the famed mobility of Americans is far less understood.
Wandering Souls demonstrates that Protestantism greatly influenced
internal migration and the social and economic development of early
America.
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious
practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth
century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging
previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment
as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the
political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of
its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and
county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican
Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and
rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the
church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor,
young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves,
dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. As such, they
were subject to its levies, its authority over marriage, and other
social and economic dictates. In addition to its religious
functions, the parish provided essential care for the poor,
collaborated with the courts to handle civil disputes, and exerted
its influence over many other aspects of community life. A Blessed
Company demonstrates that, by creatively adapting Anglican parish
organization and the language, forms, and modes of Anglican
spirituality to the Chesapeake's distinctive environmental and
human conditions, colonial Virginians sustained a remarkably
effective and faithful Anglican church in the Old Dominion.
Ireland has long been regarded as a 'land of saints and scholars'.
Yet the Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or
uncomplicated. The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the
emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of
Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history
of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history,
Christianity in Ireland has lurched from crisis to crisis.
Surviving the hostility of earlier religious cultures and the
depredations of Vikings, evolving in the face of Gregorian
reformation in the 11th and 12th centuries and more radical
protestant renewal from the 16th century, Christianity has shaped
in foundational ways how the Irish have understood themselves and
their place in the world. And the Irish have shaped Christianity,
too. Their churches have staffed some of the religion's most
important institutions and developed some of its most popular
ideas. But the Irish church, like the island, is divided. After
1922, a border marked out two jurisdictions with competing
religious politics. The southern state turned to the Catholic
church to shape its social mores, until it emerged from an
experience of sudden-onset secularization to become one of the most
progressive nations in Europe. The northern state moved more slowly
beyond the protestant culture of its principal institutions, but in
a similar direction of travel. In 2021, fifteen hundred years on
from the birth of Saint Columba, Christian Ireland appears to be
vanishing. But its critics need not relax any more than believers
ought to despair. After the failure of several varieties of
religious nationalism, what looks like irredeemable failure might
actually be a second chance. In the ruins of the church, new
Columbas and Patricks shape the rise of another Christian Ireland.
At the twilight of the Weimar Republic, politicians, scientists,
and theologians were engaged in debates surrounding the so-called
Jewish Question. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, these
discussions took on a new sense of urgency and poignancy. As state
measures against Jews unfolded, theological conceptions of the
meaning of Israel and Judaism began to impact living, breathing
Jewish persons. In this study, Ryan Tafilowski traces the thought
of the Lutheran theologian Paul Althaus (1888-1966), who once
greeted the rise of Hitler as a gift and miracle of God, as he
negotiated the Jewish Question and its meaning for his
understanding of Germanness across the Weimar Republic, the Nazi
years, and the post-war period. In particular, the study uncovers
the paradoxical categories Althaus used to interpret the ongoing
theological significance of the Jewish people, whom he considered
both an imminent threat to German ethnic identity and yet a
mysterious cipher by which Germans might decode their own spiritual
destiny in world history. Sketching the peculiar contours of
Althaus theology of Israel, this study offers a fresh
interpretation of the Erlangen Opinion on the Aryan Paragraph,
which is an important artifact not only of the Kirchenkampf, but
also of the complex and ambivalent history of Christian
antisemitism. By bringing Althaus into conversation with some of
the most influential theologians of the twentieth century -- from
Karl Barth and Emil Brunner to Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich
Bonhoeffer -- Tafilowski broadens the scope of his inquiry to vital
questions of political theology, ethnic identity, social ethics,
and ecclesiology. As Christian theologians must once again reckon
with questions of national self-understanding under the pressures
of mass migration and resurgent nationalisms, this investigation
into the logic of ethno-nationalist theologies is a timely
contribution.
"Singing the Gospel" offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and
its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the
sixteenth-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The
Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthal--where pastors, musicians, and
laity forged an enduring and influential union of Lutheranism,
music, and culture--is at the center of the story.
The Lutheran hymns, sung in the streets and homes as well as in
the churches and schools of Joachimsthal, were central instruments
of a Lutheran pedagogy that sought to convey the Gospel to lay men
and women in a form that they could remember and apply for
themselves. Townspeople and miners sang the hymns at home, as they
taught their children, counseled one another, and consoled
themselves when death came near.
Shaped and nourished by the theology of the hymns, the laity of
Joachimsthal maintained this Lutheran piety in their homes for a
generation after Evangelical pastors had been expelled, finally
choosing emigration over submission to the Counter-Reformation.
Singing the Gospel challenges the prevailing view that Lutheranism
failed to transform the homes and hearts of sixteenth-century
Germany.
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