Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions

Most stimulating - for this Anglophone historian, at least - has been the reintegration of religious history into mainstream social and political history generally, and also the heightened sense of an international movement embracing an entire continent and beyond. We no longer make artificial disti...

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Glavni avtor: MacCulloch, D
Format: Journal article
Jezik:English
Izdano: Renaissance Society of America 2006
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description Most stimulating - for this Anglophone historian, at least - has been the reintegration of religious history into mainstream social and political history generally, and also the heightened sense of an international movement embracing an entire continent and beyond. We no longer make artificial distinctions between the Reformation of the Atlantic Isles and those on the mainland; we can see more clearly what is local and what is part of an international phenomenon; and we can also appreciate the artificiality of considering Protestantism in isolation from reform movements in both the Pre-Reformation Western Church and Post-Tridentine Roman Catholicism. I commend the advantages of emancipating religious history from specific religious commitment. I also discuss the effect of the breaking down of barriers to travel and research in the wake of the 1989-90 revolutions in the recovery of our sense of the importance of Reformations in Eastern Europe, and also highlight our realization that a heritage of Southern European dissent shaped the heterodoxy that dissolved Reformation certainties.
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spellingShingle Christianity and Christian spirituality
History of Britain and Europe
Theology and Religion
History
MacCulloch, D
Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title_full Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title_fullStr Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title_full_unstemmed Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title_short Protestantism in mainland Europe: new directions
title_sort protestantism in mainland europe new directions
topic Christianity and Christian spirituality
History of Britain and Europe
Theology and Religion
History
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