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Informationen zum Autor Carter Lindberg is Professor Emeritus of Church History at Boston University School of Theology. Widely recognized as a leading authority on the Reformation! he is the author or editor of numerous books! including Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity (2008)! A Brief History of Christianity (2005)! The Pietist Theologians (2004)! The Reformation Theologians (2001)! and The European Reformations Sourcebook (1999)! all published by Wiley-Blackwell. Klappentext Updated with the best of recent scholarship, while maintaining its hallmark features, the second edition of The European Reformations is an outstanding introduction to the sixteenth-century Reformations in Europe. New sections include coverage of the Catholic Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Reformation in Britain. The book continues its tradition of presenting material in the most lively and accessible manner possible, and sets the origin of the Reformation in the context of late medieval social, economic and religious crises, carefully tracing its responses and trajectories through the different religious groups. Together, religion, politics, social forces, and the personalities of the time are woven into a singular compelling narrative.With its seamless synthesis of original material with updated scholarship, The European Reformations provides the most comprehensive and engaging textbook available on the origins and impacts of Europe's Reformations - and the consequences that continue to resonate today. Zusammenfassung Updated with the best of recent scholarship, while maintaining its hallmark features, the second edition of the The European Reformations is an outstanding introduction to the sixteenth-century reformations in Europe. New sections include coverage of the Catholic Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Reformation in Britain. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionList of Abbreviations1. History, Historiography, and Interpretations of the Reformations2. The Late Middle Ages: Threshold and Foothold of the Reformations3. The Dawn of a New Era4. Wait for No One: Implementation of Reforms in Wittenberg5. Fruits of the Fig Tree: Social Welfare and Education6. The Reformation of the Common Man7. The Swiss Connection: Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich8. The Sheep against the Shepherds: The Radical Reformations9. Augsburg 1530 to Augsburg 1555: Reforms and Politics10. "The Most Perfect School of Christ": The Genevan Reformation11. Refuge in the Shadow of God's Wings: The Reformation in France12. The Blood of the Martyrs: The Reformation in the Netherlands13. The Reformations in England and Scotland14. Catholic Renewal and the Counter-Reformation15. Legacies of the Reformations Chronology Genealogies Maps GlossaryAppendix: Aids to Reformation StudiesBibliographyIndex...
