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The European Reformation (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The European Reformation (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has
offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation
of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to
Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate
Protestant and Catholic identities and movements. Catholic
Christianity at the end of the Middle Ages was not at all a
uniformly 'decadent' or corrupt institution: it showed clear signs
of cultural vigour and inventiveness. However, it was vulnerable to
a particular kind of criticism, if ever its claims to mediate the
grace of God to believers were challenged. Martin Luther proposed a
radically new insight into how God forgives human sin. In this new
theological vision, rituals did not 'purify' people; priests did
not need to be set apart from the ordinary community; the church
needed no longer to be an international body. For a critical
'Reformation moment', this idea caught fire in the spiritual,
political, and community life of much of Europe. Lay people seized
hold of the instruments of spiritual authority, and transformed
religion into something simpler, more local, more rooted in their
own community. So were born the many cultures, liturgies, musical
traditions and prayer lives of the countries of Protestant Europe.
This new edition embraces and responds to developments in
scholarship over the past twenty years. Substantially re-written
and updated, with both a thorough revision of the text and fully
updated references and bibliography, it nevertheless preserves the
distinctive features of the original, including its clearly
thought-out integration of theological ideas and political
cultures, helping to bridge the gap between theological and social
history, and the use of helpful charts and tables that made the
original so easy to use.
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