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Spirituality and Reform - Christianity in the West, ca. 1000-1800 (Hardcover)
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Spirituality and Reform - Christianity in the West, ca. 1000-1800 (Hardcover)
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In colorful detail, Calvin Lane explores the dynamic intersection
between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from ca.
1000 to ca. 1800. Lowering the artificial boundaries between "the
Middle Ages," "the Reformation," and "the Enlightenment," Lane
brings to life a series of reform programs each of which developed
new sensibilities about what it meant to live the Christian life.
Along this tour, Lane discusses music, art, pilgrimage, relics,
architecture, heresy, martyrdom, patterns of personal prayer,
changes in marriage and family life, connections between church
bodies and governing authorities, and certainly worship. The thread
that he finds running from the Benedictine revival in the eleventh
century to the pietistic movements of the eighteenth is a
passionate desire to return to a primitive era of Christianity, a
time of imagined apostolic authenticity, even purity. In accessible
language, he introduces readers to Cistercians and Calvinists,
Franciscans and Jesuits, Lutherans and Jansenists, Moravians and
Methodists to name but a few of the many reform movements studied
in this book. Although Lane highlights their diversity, he argues
that each movement rooted its characteristic practice - their
spirituality - in an imaginative recovery of the apostolic life.
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