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Informationen zum Autor Euan Cameron is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History, Union Theological Seminary, New York, and has taught previously at the University of Oxford and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is the author of a number of other works on late medieval and early modern religious history, including The Reformation of the Heretics (1984), Waldenses: Rejections of Holy Church in Medieval Europe (2000), and Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason and Religion 1250-1750 (2010). He is the editor of Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History (1999) and the sixteenth century volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe series (2006). Klappentext A fully revised and updated version of this authoritative account of the birth of the Protestant traditions in sixteenth-century Europe, providing a clear and comprehensive narrative of these complex and many-stranded events. Zusammenfassung A fully revised and updated version of this authoritative account of the birth of the Protestant traditions in sixteenth-century Europe, providing a clear and comprehensive narrative of these complex and many-stranded events. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Reformation and Europe Part I: The Background 1: The Religion of the People of Europe 2: The Vulnerability of the Church 3: 'Reform' from Within and its Limits 4: Challenges from Outside and their Limits 5: Heresy: An Alternative Church? 6: The Church and the Christian Soul Part II: The Reformers and Their Message 7: The 'Luther-Affair' and its Context 8: The Conversions of the Reformers 9: Rejections of Reform 10: The Reformers' Message: Salvation 11: The Reformers' Message: Scripture 12: The Reformers' Message: The Church 13: The Reformers' Message: Sacraments Part III: Establishing the Reformed Churches 14: Unsuccessful 'Affiliations' to the Reformed Cause 15: Self-Governing Towns and Cities 16: Principalities and Kingdoms 17: Motives for Establishing the Reformation? Part IV: Beyond the 'Reformation Moment': from Temporary Coalitions to Growing Communities 18: Voluntary, Gathered Movements Reject the 'Coalition' 19: Crisis, Survival, and Compromise in Politics 20: Reformers at Odds: The 'Confessional' Reformation 21: Reformers and Laypeople: Building a Religious Culture 22: Conclusion Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index ...
