The church in the early modern age / C. Scott Dixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dixon, C. Scott, author.

Series:

I.B. Tauris history of the Christian Church ; v. 4.

I. B. Tauris History of the Christian Church ; [4]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--16th century.

Church history.

Church history--15th century.

Church history--17th century.

Physical Description:

xviii, 350 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Contents:

1 Renaissance Christianity 1

Christian humanism from Valla to Erasmus

Latin Christendom

Embodied beliefs

2 Reformation Christianity 33

Causa Lutheri: the origins of the Reformation

The evangelical movement in Germany

Zurich and Geneva: the roots of reformed Protestantism

3 Religious Division 67

Corpus Christi and the end of medieval unity

Catholic reform and Counter Reformation

The West and the East: Orthodox Christianity

4 Church and State 111

Confessionalization: Protestants and Catholics in Germany

The making of Russian Orthodoxy

5 Further Reform 143

The rise of the Protestant radicals

Puritans, Pietists and Jansenists

Eastern Christianities

6 Christian Expansion 179

The Iberian empires and the spread of Catholicism

New England and the rise of American Christianity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.

ISBN:

9781845114398

1845114396

OCLC:

946705225