Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 231 p. Beginning to Talk to ‘Billy’: Revising Southern Stereotypes of Unionism Investigating the Protestant ‘Kaleidoscope’ Lost in Translation: Loyalism and the Media Typical Unionists? The Politicians and their People, Past and Present ‘Doing Their Bit’: Gendering the Constitution of Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist Identities The Re-invention of...
Ross House Books, 1988. — 323 p. This powerful and fully documented study exposes the questionable background and faulty theology of the man responsible for the popular Scofield Reference Bible, which did much to promote the dispensational system. The story is disturbing in its historical account of the illusive personality canonized as a dispensational saint and calls into...
Oxford University Press, 2013. - 288 p. The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline offers the first full-length, critical study of The Christian Century, widely regarded as the most influential religious magazine in America for most of the twentieth century and hailed by Time as "Protestantism's most vigorous voice." Elesha Coffman narrates the previously...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010. — 379 p. This study of clerical book collections in Norway 1650–1750 provides detailed evidence about the circulation of books among one specific layer of the educated classes in a peripheral part of Europe. The wide range of authors and works included in these book collections proves that the Norwegian clergy partook in the European flow of...
Laterza, 2015. - 46 p. Nel caso favorevole le crisi sono temporali purificatori. Può anche darsi che la crisi attuale favorisca un cambiamento di mentalità che alla fine induca nelle persone un atteggiamento più prudente rispetto a quello promosso dal capitalismo di debito. Quali possano essere i meccanismi sociali capaci di condurre a un simile cambiamento non è però chiaro....
Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1997. — 304 p. Dr. Davies, professor of religious history at Princeton University, wrote this classic work on Reformed worship in the mid-1940's as his doctoral work. There are chapters on the theology of Reformed worship, the nature of English Puritanism, the place of the Word of God in worship, Puritan preaching, church discipline, extemporaneous...
Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1997. — 304 p. Dr. Davies, professor of religious history at Princeton University, wrote this classic work on Reformed worship in the mid-1940's as his doctoral work. There are chapters on the theology of Reformed worship, the nature of English Puritanism, the place of the Word of God in worship, Puritan preaching, church discipline, extemporaneous...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 288 p. In Dietrich Bonhoefferas writings, Martin Luther is ubiquitous. Too often, however, Bonhoefferas Lutheranism has been set aside with much less argumentative work than is appropriate in light of his sustained engagement with Luther. As a result, Luther remains a largely untouched hermeneutic key in Bonhoeffer interpretation. In...
Simon & Schuster, 1980. - 1233 p. ISBN10: 0671610503 Reading Will Durant's History of European Civilization from Wycliff to Calvin 1300-1564 will be an illuminating experience for readers unacquainted with factual descriptions of life during those years. For having views on religion or government contrary to time or country thousands died slow deaths tied to a stake surrounded...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. - 286 p. This book examines Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795. David Fitzpatrick charts the declining power and influence of the Protestant community in Ireland and the strategies adopted in the face of this decline, presenting rich personal testimony that illustrates how individuals experienced and perceived...
Berlin: Springer, 2001. — 198 p. — ISBN10: 9048156645; ISBN13: 978-9048156641. The influence of millenarian thinking upon Cromwell's England is well-known. The cultural and intellectual conceptions of the role of millenarian ideas in the `long' 18th century when, so the `official' story goes, the religious sceptics and deists of Enlightened England effectively tarred such...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 201 p. The causal link between modernization and secularization constitutes the core of secularization theories, but what these theories often overlook are the ways in which modernity can benefit religion. Focusing on the female diaconate’s contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in nineteenth-century Sweden, this book argues...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 202 p. — ISBN10: 0230008259; ISBN13: 978-0230008250. This book offers the first complete overview of the intellectual history of one of the most significant contemporary cultural trends – the apocalyptic expectations of European and American evangelicals – in an account that guides readers into the origins, its evolution, and its...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 388 p. The intellectual legacy of Andrew Melville (1545-1622) as a leader of the Renaissance and a promoter of humanism in Scotland has been obscured by "the Melville legend." In an effort to dispense with 'the Melville of popular imagination' and recover 'the Melville of history,' this work situates his life and thought within the broader...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 344 p. — ISBN10: 0199998140; ISBN13: 978-0199998142. Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and social movements of...
Berlin: Springer, 2006. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 1402042922; ISBN13: 978-1402042928. In many ways Jeffery Jue's volume fills a considerable gap in our historical knowledge by tracing the impact and legacy of the Cambridge scholar Joseph Mede's apocalyptic thought. By making good use of the limited material bequeathed by Mede and his contemporaries Jue successfully places Mede's...
Springer, 2001. - 208 p. - (Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 2). The Priority of God’s Gracious Action in Richard Hooker’s Hermeneutic Powers of Nature and Influences of Grace in Hooker’s Lawes Grace and Hierarchy: Richard Hooker’s Two Platonisms Richard Hooker and the Debates about Predestination, 1580–1600 Richard Hooker on the Un-conditionality of Predestination...
Saarbrücken: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016. — 98 p. ISBN: 978-3-659-96802-0 This book is an English-language version of the monograph published by LAP in 2011 and devoted to the study and analysis of the factors of the formation and development of Protestant and Neo-Pentecostals (Neo-Protestant) associations in the multi-ethnic region of the Russian Federation - the...
University Press of Florida, 2015. - 250 p. In the early nineteenth century, antebellum America witnessed a Second Great Awakening led by evangelical Protestants who gathered in revivals and contributed to the blossoming of social movements throughout the country. Preachers and reformers promoted a Christian lifestyle, and evangelical fervor overtook entire communities. One...
Westport, CN: Praeger, 2000. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0275966909; ISBN13: 978-0275966904. The Americas have always been fertile grounds for millenarian movements, which found their expression through the spirit of revolutionaries and the practical aspirations of the founding fathers. More recently, millenarian themes have also marked the political fringe in spectacular and often...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 488 p. The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions. Catholics could worship anywhere, while Protestants had specific locations where they were sanctioned to worship. Over the coming decades Protestants' religious freedom and civil privileges eroded until the Revocation of the...
Blackwell Publishing, 2004. — 531 p. Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks Introduction: Protestantism – the Problem of Identity Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks The Formation of Protestant Identity: History and Ideology European Protestantism Protestantism in German-speaking Lands to the Present Day Randall C. Zachman Shapers of Protestantism: Martin Luther Graham...
Ashgate, 2013. - 250 p. The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have meant has attracted less attention -...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. - 217 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Why was Ireland the only region in Europe which successfully rejected a state-imposed religion during the confessional era? This book argues that the anomalous outcome of the Reformations in Ireland was largely due to an unusual symbiosis between the Church and the old bardic order. Using sources...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 272 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war — the splintering of western Christendom into conflicting sects — was physically but also spiritually violent. In an era of tremendous...
Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2006. — 335 p. — ISBN10: 1932792384; ISBN13: 978-1932792386. Jesus' promise that "the end" draws near has spawned an expectation of that grand event across various religious groups. This volume examines the abiding social issues that surround the continued presence of apocalyptic anticipation by setting them in historical, present-day, and...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 303 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Mark A. Noll, named one of America's most influential evangelicals by Time Magazine, provides a fresh and accessible history of Protestantism from the era of Martin Luther to the present day. Noll begins with the founding of Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Anabaptist churches in the sixteenth-century...
Numbers, R.L. The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century [Numbers, R.L. Buttler J.M. (eds)]. – Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1993. — 249 p. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Millerites: A Shadow Portrait. William Miller: Disappointed Prophet. Joshua V. Himes and the Cause of Adventism. The Millerite Adventists in Great...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 315 p. This book proposes a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625. Setting aside ‘narrow’ analyses of conflict over predestination, its theme is ecclesiology – the nature of the Church, its rites and governance, and its relationship to the early Stuart political world....
Springer, 2017. — 312 p. This book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia — where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We...
Temple University Press , 2014. - 384 p. Albert M. Greenfield (1887-1967), an ambitious immigrant outsider, was courted for his business acumen by mayors, senators, governors, and presidents, including Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. As this feisty Russian Jew built a business empire that encompassed real estate, stores (including Bonwit Teller and Tiffany's), hotels...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 320 p. This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. - 288 p. The last years of Henry VIII's life, 1539-47, have conventionally been seen as a time when the king persecuted Protestants. This book argues that Henry's policies were much more ambiguous; that he continued to give support to Protestantism and that many accordingly also remained loyal to him. It also examines why the Protestants...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 576 p. No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 576 p. No other German has shaped the history of early-modern Europe more than Martin Luther. In this comprehensive and balanced biography we see Luther as a rebel, but not as a lone hero; as a soldier in a mighty struggle for the universal reform of Christianity and its role in the world. The foundation of Protestantism changed the religious...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014. — 459 p. The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it. Matthew Avery Sutton draws on extensive archival research to document the ways an initially obscure...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. — P. 128-165 + References for chapter four: 390-400. The file contains only chapter 4 "Clairvoyants and Visionaries". Explaining Visions: Animal Magnetism and the Shout Tradition; The Magnetic State; Magnetic Experiments. An Excursus on Respectable Experience. Experiencing Visions: Methodists and Adventists, Fanatics, Visionaries,...
Oxford University Press, 2012. - 311 p. 'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish Independence. As both a product and critic of this culture, Butler posed the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 257 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Court and City in Restoration Dublin Churches and Cathedrals Public Sculpture after 1700 Architectures of Authority in the Eighteenth Century The Dublin House
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002. — viii + 412 p. — ISBN: 0-7190-6104-0. This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther (translated and annotated by Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen and Thomas D. Frazel) in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than 450 years. The first of these accounts was...
Springer, 2001. - 208 p. - (Studies in Early Modern Religious Reforms 1). Some of England's most fascinating Renaissance texts have been forgotten by historians, literary critics and theologians alike. The earliest printed Bibles in the English language provide an astonishingly rich resource for interdisciplinary studies in the 21st century. Long Travail and Great Paynes is a...
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