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The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform
Ole P. Grell
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Description for The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform
Hardback. The first study in English of church, state and society during the Scandinavian Reformation. Editor(s): Grell, Professor Ole Peter. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 510.
When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the ... Read more
When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521441629
SKU
V9780521441629
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Reviews for The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform
"The product of a team of Scandinavian scholars, this book is a compact and well-integrated introduction to the Reformation in Scandinavia." Choice "The contributors to the volume are well-established Nordic scholars within the fields of history and church history....the volume includes an impressive amount of information and would seem a good introduction to sixteenth-century Scandinavian church history for ... Read more