The European Reformations Sourcebook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470673273 ISBN 13: 9780470673270

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

This revised and expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century texts. Notable for its comprehensive coverage, it consolidates a broad range of important documents, which until now, have been scattered through numerous volumes of primary materials.

• An invaluable collection of primary sources, edited by a renowned reformations scholar, which brings together significant and illuminating documents from this influential period
• Revised and updated to include catechetical writings by Luther and Calvin, and increased analysis of their theological writings, as well as coverage of women reformers such as Caritas Pirckheimer, Katharina Schütz-Zell, and Olimpia Morata
• Includes a broad range of documents spanning major theological writings through to confessions, political grievances, and writings drawn from tracts, poems, and satires
• Features observer accounts of events and debates that lucidly depict the personalities of the reformers, offering students their first direct engagement with participants in the European reformations
• Creates an ideal accompaniment to Lindberg’s The European Reformations, 2nd edition, or can be used alongside any text on the European reformations for a complete learning guide

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Carter Lindberg is Professor Emeritus of Church History at Boston University. His numerous publications include The European Reformations, 2nd edition (2009), Love: A Brief History through Western Christianity (2008), and A Brief History of Christianity (2005), The Pietist Theologians (2004) all published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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This revised and expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century texts. Particularly notable for its comprehensive coverage, it consolidates a broad range of important documents, which until now, have not been available in one volume. These comprise not only the major institutional and theological writings of the time, but also popular expressions of religious and political grievances, including Flugschriften, poems, satires, sermons, as well as women's writings.

The Sourcebook has been updated to include catechetical writings by Luther and Calvin, which illustrate these reformers’ efforts to instill their religious beliefs, along with increased coverage of their theological writings. Also included are observer accounts of events and debates that lucidly depict the personalities of the reformers, offering students their first direct engagement with participants in the European reformations. In addition, it expands the coverage of women reformers, and now incorporates the writings of figures including Caritas Pirckheimer, Katharina Schütz-Zell, and Olimpia Morata. Many of the readings have been extended to maximize their classroom use.

This invaluable sourcebook is an ideal accompaniment to Lindberg’s The European Reformations, 2nd edition, or may be used alongside any text on the European reformations for a complete learning guide to this important and influential period.

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This revised and expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century texts. Particularly notable for its comprehensive coverage, it consolidates a broad range of important documents, which until now, have not been available in one volume. These comprise not only the major institutional and theological writings of the time, but also popular expressions of religious and political grievances, including Flugschriften, poems, satires, sermons, as well as women's writings.

The Sourcebook has been updated to include catechetical writings by Luther and Calvin, which illustrate these reformers’ efforts to instill their religious beliefs, along with increased coverage of their theological writings. Also included are observer accounts of events and debates that lucidly depict the personalities of the reformers, offering students their first direct engagement with participants in the European reformations. In addition, it expands the coverage of women reformers, and now incorporates the writings of figures including Caritas Pirckheimer, Katharina Schütz-Zell, and Olimpia Morata. Many of the readings have been extended to maximize their classroom use.

This invaluable sourcebook is an ideal accompaniment to Lindberg’s The European Reformations, 2^nd edition, or may be used alongside any text on the European reformations for a complete learning guide to this important and influential period.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470673273
• ISBN 13: 9780470673270
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Lindberg Carter
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