German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918

Zusatztext Although the text is crowded with informative portraits of scholars! church leaders! devotional authors! architects! and musicians! it also offers important interpretive insights ... Hope deserves praise for his pioneering work! which contributes much both to comparative church history and to our understanding of a neglected aspect of the modernization process in Central and Northern Europe. Klappentext This is the first history in English of the Lutheran church in Germany and Scandinavia from 1700 to the end of the First World War - the age of Bach and the Enlightenment! and fundamental social and political change. Zusammenfassung This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway in Scandinavia (1808, 1814), and the unification of Germany (1866-71), this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, reform of the church establishment, and steps taken to enlighten parishioners were almost always held back by the anomalous structural legacy of the Reformation, tradition, and parish habit, sacred and profane. However, the birth of the modern nation-state and its market economy posed a fundamental challenge to the structure and ethos of the Reformation churches, as it did to the Catholic Church. The First World War deepened the crisis further: German Protestants (and the Scandinavians were not immune either, although they remained neutral), who bracketed modernity with crisis and religion with national renewal, and who saw national loyalty as a higher value than the faith, fellowship, and moral order of the church, were swept up into the maw of a modern national war machine which threatened to wipe out Protestantism altogether....

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Hope, Nicholas (Lecturer in History Hope, Nicholas M. Hope, Hope Nicholas
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1999
• EAN: 9780198269946
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826994-6
• No. of pages: 716
• Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church; Oxford History of the Christia; Oxford History of the Christian Church
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, Germany, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / Lutheran, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries