The Reformation Crisis
Author : Joel Hurstfield
Publisher : London, Arnold
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Reformation
ISBN :
Author : Joel Hurstfield
Publisher : London, Arnold
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,72 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Reformation
ISBN :
Author : Thomas H. Luxon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 1995-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226497853
Literal Figures is the most important work on John Bunyan to appear in many years, and a significant contribution to the history and theory of representation. Beginning with mainstream Puritan responses to a challenge to orthodoxy—a man who claims he has been literally transformed into Christ and his companion who claims to be the "Spouse of Christ"—and concluding with an analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress, which John Bunyan described as a "fall into Allegory," Thomas Luxon presents detailed analyses of key moments in the Reformation crisis of representation. Why did Puritan Christianity repeatedly turn to allegorical forms of representation in spite of its own intolerance of "Allegorical fancies?" Luxon demonstrates that Protestant doctrine itself was a kind of allegory in hiding, one that enabled Puritans to forge a figural view of reality while championing the "literal" and the "historical". He argues that for Puritanism to survive its own literalistic, anti-symbolic, and millenarian challenges, a "fall" back into allegory was inevitable. Representative of this "fall," The Pilgrim's Progress marks the culminating moment at which the Reformation's war against allegory turns upon itself. An essential work for understanding both the history and theory of representation and the work of John Bunyan, Literal Figures skillfully blends historical and critical methods to describe the most important features of early modern Protestant and Puritan culture.
Author : Joel Hurstfield
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Reformation
ISBN :
Author : Norman Sykes
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,19 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Reformation
ISBN :
Author : Borys Gudzi︠a︡k
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Crisis and Reform provides an excellent overview of the ecclesiastical structures in Eastern Slavic lands from their Christianization to the late sixteenth century.
Author : Debra Meyers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,66 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1793604924
This volume explores the historical, theological, sociological, and ethical dimensions of the current issues threatening the two thousand-year-old Roman Catholic Church. The interdisciplinary analysis contained within the volume exposes the destructive convictions and actions of the Roman Catholic clergy that has produced the current institutional crisis while suggesting options for moving forward. Documenting the cases that constitute the many crises currently surrounding Catholicism, the volume aims to provide clarity and conscience. At the same time, with a constructive vision of an ethics and religious practice rooted in integrity and transparency, the authors offer a path towards holistic and holy reformation by and for Catholics.
Author : Borys Andrij Gudziak
Publisher :
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ukraine
ISBN :
Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 168149762X
In one of his most fascinating books, Anglo-French writer Hilaire Belloc presents in bold colors the twenty-three principal characters of the Protestant Reformation. He focuses primarily on those figures who changed the course of English history, analyzing their strengths, mistakes, motives and deeds. With brief and vivid chapters, Belloc paints the portraits of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Thomas More, Mary Tudor, Thomas Cromwell, Mary Stuart and many others. He illustrates how the motives of Protestant leaders were rarely religious in nature, but usually political or economic. Belloc, who served in Parliament from 1906 to 1910, underscores his study of these powerful personalities with the fact that Christendom was once a single entity under the authority of the Catholic Church. Until the Reformation, he argues, each country viewed itself as a part of the whole. Many European princes, however, resented the power of the Pope. The Reformation, aided by the rise of nationalism, was a means for them to shake off Papal authority and to rule their territories independently. It also gave European monarchs control over the Church and its property in their realms, including the taxes that would normally be sent to Rome.
Author : Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
Publisher :
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1967
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865972780
The Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution in England laid the institutional and intellectual foundations of the modern understanding of liberty, of which we are heirs and beneficiaries. The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century uncovers new pathways to understanding this seminal time. Neither Catholic nor Protestant emerges unscathed from the examination to which Trevor-Roper subjects the era in which, from political and religious causes, the identification and extirpation of witches was a central event. Trevor-Roper points out that "In England the most active phase of witch-hunting coincided with times of Puritan pressure -- the reign of Queen Elizabeth and the period of the civil wars -- and some very fanciful theories have been built on this coincidence. But... the persecution of witches in England was trivial compared with the experience of the Continent and of Scotland. Therefore... [one must examine] the craze as a whole, throughout Europe, and [seek] to relate its rise, frequency, and decline to the general intellectual and social movements of the time...".
Author : John Witte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0521818427
Calvin's teachings spread rapidly throughout Western Europe shaping the law of early modern Protestant lands.