[PDF] The Age Of The Reformation The Religious Wars eBook

Author : Jesse Spohnholz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1611490340

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Introduction : religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugees -- Religious refugees and the rise of confessional tensions -- Calvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious toleration -- The strained hospitality of the Lutheran community -- Surviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in Wesel -- The practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel.

Author : Donald Nugent
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674237254

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At the colloquy of Poissy, revived Catholicism and emergent international Protestantism met in an attempt to establish peace, unity, and reconciliation. The author argues that the colloquy was the final crossroads of the Reformation.

Author : Richard S. Dunn
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393090215

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This series provides seven original, through, and well-balanced volumes for courses in European history from the Renaissance to the present.

Author : Mark Konnert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2008-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442600041

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"A tour de force." - Vladimir Steffel, Ohio State University

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317032764

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In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains largely defined by national boundaries, tied to specific processes of state building as well as nation building. In order to more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as "religious violence" and "holy warfare" within the context of military conflicts commonly labelled "religious wars". The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the so-called age of religious war. By using different methodological and theoretical approaches historians, philosophers, and theologians engage in an interdisciplinary debate that contributes to a better understanding of the religio-political situation of early modern Europe and the interpretation of violent conflicts interpreted as religious conflicts today. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, new and innovative perspectives are opened up that question if in fact religion was a primary driving force behind these conflicts.

Author : Brad S. Gregory
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 067426407X

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In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.

Author : Thomas A. Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052188909X

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This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.