European Reformation

Name: European Reformation
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ISBN: 9780198730934

ISBN-10: 0198730934

ISBN-13: 9780198730934

Edition: 1991

Authors: Euan Cameron

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This book is a survey and analysis of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century. During this period western Christianity underwent the most dramatic changes in its entire history. From Iceland to Transylvania, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, the Reformation divided churches and communities into 'Catholic' and 'Protestant', and created varying regional and national traditions. The new Protestant creed rejected traditional measures of piety--vows, penances, pardons, and masses--in favor of sermons and catechisms, and an everyday morality of diligence, neighborly charity, and prayer. In the process, it involved many of Europe's people for the first time in a political movement…

Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/6/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



List of maps


Introduction: The Reformation and Europe



The Background


The religion of the people of Europe


the vulnerability of the church


'Reform' from within and its limits


Challenges from outside and their limits


Heresy - an alternative church?


The church and the Christian soul



The Reformers and their Message


The 'Luther-Affair' and its context


The reformers message - salvation


The reformers' message - scripture


The reformers' - The church


The reformers' message - sacraments


The conversions of the reformers


Rejections of reform



Establishing the Reformed Churches


Unsuccessful 'affiliations' to the reformed cause


Self-governing towns and cities


Principalities and kingdoms


Motives for establishing the reformation?



The Coalition of Reformers and People Breaks Down


The sects reject the 'coalition' Crisis, survival, and compromise in politics


Reformers at odds: the 'confessional' reformationl Reformers and laymen: a conflict of priorities


Conclusion


Abbreviations


Notes


Suggestions for further reading


Index