Calvinism: A History - Hardcover

Hart, Darryl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300148798 ISBN 13: 9780300148794

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2013

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"The great merit of this book is that it pulls so many threads together in a coherent tapestry. The writing is clear and efficient."-James Bratt, Christian Century -- James Bratt * Christian Century * "Calvinism covers its imposingly diverse subject with scholarly precision and the kind of charity and balance one hopes for in any historian. [...] In Calvinism, Mr. Hart skilfully combines political and institutional history, on the one hand, and theological developments and the `history of ideas,' on the other."-Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal -- Barton Swaim * Wall Street Journal *

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The first single-volume history of Reformed Protestantism from its sixteenth-century origins to the present This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history-from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence. Hart's approach features significant episodes in the institutional history of Calvinism that are responsible for its contemporary profile. He traces the political and religious circumstances that first created space for Reformed churches in Europe and later contributed to Calvinism's expansion around the world. He discusses the effects of the American and French Revolutions on ecclesiastical establishments as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century communions, particularly in Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany, that directly challenged church dependence on the state. Raising important questions about secularization, religious freedom, privatization of faith, and the place of religion in public life, this book will appeal not only to readers with interests in the history of religion but also in the role of religion in political and social life today.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300148798
• ISBN 13: 9780300148794
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352