The Early Reformation on the Continent (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

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A thematic emphasis allows a balanced picture of the changes that reforming communities sought t A thematic emphasis allows a balanced picture of the changes that reforming communities sought to introduce and the difficulties and disagreements concerning these. Practical and intellectual concerns are considered together, showing the problems in putting new ideas into practice. The origins and development of each individual topic in the history of the western Church places the early Reformation in its proper place in the history of Christianity and religious practice.

The intellectual origins of Reformed thought are first considered through discussion of the invention of printing, the Bible, and religious scholarship, and its place in the wider world is decided by examination of the doctrines surrounding death, purgatory, and indulgences, the urban context in the free cities, and the question of conversion.

The putting into practice of reformed ideas is illustrated in chapters on the marriage of the clergy, the fate of monks and nuns, the new services, church organization, the creed, education, and issues surrounding marriage and divorce. The difficult introduction of reformed religion in rural areas, ranging widely throughout Europe, is considered along with the controversies over the justification of resistance to state power.

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Search my Subject Specializations: Classical, Early, and Medieval Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval Poetry and Poets: Keith Robbins is emeritus vice-chancellor, at the University of Wales, Lampeter. This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway in Scandinavia , , and the unification of Germany , this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, reform of the church establishment, and steps taken to enlighten parishioners were almost always held back by the anomalous structural legacy of the Reformation, tradition, and parish habit, sacred and profane. However, the birth of the modern nation-state and its market economy posed a fundamental challenge to the structure and ethos of the Reformation churches, as it did to the Catholic Church.

The First World War deepened the crisis further: German Protestants and the Scandinavians were not immune either, although they remained neutral , who bracketed modernity with crisis and religion with national renewal, and who saw national loyalty as a higher value than the faith, fellowship, and moral order of the church, were swept up into the maw of a modern national war machine which threatened to wipe out Protestantism altogether. Nicholas Hope is reader in history at University of Glasgow, and visiting fellow at University of Heidelberg.

The study of the Reformation in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British history to construct an innovative narrative of religious change in the four nations. Felicity Heal uses a broadly chronological framework to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the pre-reformation churches, the political crises of the break with Rome, the development of Protestantism, and changes in popular religious culture.

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The tools of conversion—the Bible, preaching, and catechism—are accorded specific attention, as is doctrinal change. Heal argues that political calculations did the most to determine the success or failure of reformation, though the ideological commitment of a clerical elite was also of central significance. Felicity Heal is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Oxford and fellow of Jesus College. Professor Rupp looks at the consequences of the Revolution of , including the Toleration Act and the schism created by those who felt bound in conscience not to accept the new monarchy.

He asks how the alliance between church and state affected the establishment, and how party politics modified its attitudes and sought to silence its independent voice. He describes the life and worship of the churches, the survival of intolerance despite the principle of toleration, the growth of the dissenting churches, and the predicament of Roman Catholics. Gordon Rupp was a Methodist preacher, historian, and scholar. Christianity provided the constitutive identity of historic Ethiopia. From the sixteenth century, and increasingly from the nineteenth, Christianity entered decisively into the life and culture of an increasing number of other African peoples.

In the course of the twentieth century, African Christians have become a major part of the world church, and arguably modern African history as a whole is not intelligible without its powerful Christian element. Yet despite the great advance in African historiography over the last 40 years, this is the first major volume to consider the historical development and character of the Christian church in Africa as a whole, linking together Ethiopian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and the numerous independent churches of modern times.

Adrian Hastings focuses on the role of conversion, the shaping of Church life and its relationship to traditional values, and the impact of political power. Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.

Adrian Hastings is professor of theology and head of the department of theology and religious studies at the University of Leeds. The Church in Ancient Society provides a full and enjoyable narrative history of the first six centuries of the Christian church.

The Early Reformation on the Continent

Ancient Greek and Roman society had many gods and an addiction to astrology and divination. This introduction to the period traces the process by which Christianity changed this and so provided a foundation for the modern world; the teaching of Jesus created a lasting community, which grew even to command the allegiance of the Roman emperor.

Chadwick discusses Christianity in relation to how it appeared to both Jews and pagans, and how Christian doctrine and practice were shaped in relation to Greco-Roman culture and the Jewish matrix. In particular, he examines theological and ecclesial texts in relation to the behavior and beliefs of people who attended churches and synagogues. Christians did not find agreement and unity easy and Chadwick displays a distinctive concern for the factors—theological, personal, and political—which caused division in the church and prevented reconciliation.

The emperors, however, began to foster unity for political reasons and chose monotheism. Finally, the Church captured society.

The Early Reformation on the Continent offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice. Taking into account recent work on Erasmus and Luther , Owen Chadwick handles these and numerous other figures with sensitivity and understanding. The structure of the book is distinctively original.

Rather than following a conventional chronological progression, Owen Chadwick takes a much broader perspective and arranges his material thematically.

Whatever the topic—the Bible, clerical celibacy, moral questions of adultery and divorce, purgatory, hymns, excommunication, the relationship of church and state, education, the Eucharist—the reader is taken back to its origins and development through the history of the western church and given an authoritative, accessible, and informative account.

Owen Chadwick is emeritus regius professor of modern history at University of Cambridge. This survey of the development of the Frankish church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings approximately — is the first of its kind to appear in English. It is not a story of unimpeded advance towards the Church of medieval France but rather of painful adaptation. It takes account of unsolved problems: Special attention is paid to the intellectual interests of churchmen and to the role of the vernacular in transmitting the Christian message to clergy and laity whose Latin was negligible.

Much turned on the authority of a succession of rulers who combined deep piety with material needs that were inimical to the Church's position as a great landowner. The advance of the Church was thus hesitant and often balked. Colin Morris charts the emergence of much that is considered characteristic of European culture and religion, including universities, commercial cities, the crusades, the friars, chivalry, marriage, and church architecture.

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In all these developments, the Roman Church played an important and often fundamental role. Chadwick shows how strongly the counter-reformation still worked in Italy during the eighteenth century, how it was the constitutional development of states—rather than the incoming of new ideas—which forced change, and how traditional the Catholic world was even in the age of the enlightenment. Chadwick shows reform at work, and the fierce pressure on the Papacy marked first in the forced suppression of the Jesuits and afterwards in the kidnapping of two successive popes by French governments.

He shows how revolution in Italy affected church structures and brought on peasant war, yet encouraged, in a radical form, some improvements of church life towards which the earlier reformers had striven. Finally, Chadwick shows the political swing of the Restoration after the fall of Napoleon, the way in which the church was already associated with the political right, the great difficulties of restoring church life after the evolutionary years, and the persistence, half unnoticed, of the earlier reforming ideas among Catholics.

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Henry Chadwick was a leading historian of the early church and was appointed regius professor at both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Owen Chadwick is a prominent historian of Christianity and was regius professor of modern history at Cambridge. Faithlife Your digital faith community. Logos Powerful Bible study tools. Faithlife TV A Christian video library. Faithlife Proclaim Church presentation software. Chapters 3 vols. The Preacher's Outline and Sermon Bible 43 vols. Proverbs John Phillips Commentary Series 27 vols.

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It will clearly be the standard work on the subject for years to come. A History of the Popes — Author: Professor Chadwick writes with a sensitive empathy with the Roman Catholic mind. A well-organised index and a copious descriptive bibliography complete this magisterial and entertaining monograph.

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