Peace in the post-reformation
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521646055
- ISBN10 0521646057
- Gegenstandsart Buch
- Buchseiten 105
- Jahr der Ausgabe 1998
- Bindung Gebunden
Abschnitte
Neuere Und Neueste WeltgeschichtePeace in the post-reformation
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
This book sketches the history of peacemaking between people (not countries) as an activity of churches or of Christianity between the Reformation and the eighteenth century. The story is recounted in four countries (Italy, France, Germany and England) and in several religious settings (including Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Church of England and Calvinist). Each version is a variation upon a theme: what the author calls a 'moral tradition' which contrasts, as a continuing imperative, with the novelties of theory and practice introduced by the sixteenth-century reformers. In general the topic has much to say about the destinies of Christianity in each country, and more widely, and strikes a chord which will resonate in both the social and the religious history of the West.