The Oxford history of the Reformation /
"The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out across the world. The protests against indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for reform and renewal in the Christian Church. Bu...
| Uniform Title: | Oxford illustrated history of the Reformation. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Oxford histories.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out across the world. The protests against indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of calls for reform and renewal in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany and then Europe as a whole in furious arguments about how God's will was to be discerned, and how humans were to be 'saved'. These debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity's transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Drawing on the latest and most exciting research, this volume by a team of leading international scholars seeks to capture the essence of the Reformation in both its immediate, explosive beginnings and its longer-term consequences and legacy. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of 'reform'. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Previously published in 2015 with illustrations. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 406 pages) : maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192648372 0192648373 9780191964961 0191964964 |