Author: Kaljo RaidPublisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Twentieth and Late Nineteenth Century Roman Catholic Writers on the Protestant Reformation
Author: Kaljo RaidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
Author: Michael GauvreauPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576002
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth century.
"The Catholic Conscience in History"
Author: Quinn M. SickingPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Whig Interpretation of History served as one of the popular pillars that upheld the intellectual and ideological hegemony of the British elite white, Protestant, Victorian and Edwardian culture, justifying both the development and greatness of Great Britain and its empire. One of the earliest groups to have both a motive and a means to resist the influence and veracity of the Whig narrative was the new resurgence of Catholic converts and intellectuals who began to appear in the middle of the nineteenth century and began a revival of Catholic literary culture. This revival continued into the twentieth century and informed British literary and historical culture during and after both World Wars. John Henry Newman, Lord John Acton, Hilaire Belloc, and G.K. Chesterton were, respectively, four of the most influential writers and intellectuals of these second and third Catholic Springs in Great Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This thesis explores how these four Catholic representatives of the second and third Springs dissented from and contested the Whig Interpretation of History during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century prior to and during World War I. In this struggle, they both resisted and reclaimed elements of the Whig Interpretation and its political influence as writers using both Catholic theology and history to reinterpret the events of the Reformation. As they did so, these Catholics assisted in re-establishing a common British heritage of Natural Law that helped strengthen Great Britain's moral idenityt in the wars that were to come.
The Catholic Revival of the Nineteenth Century; a Brief Popular Account of Its Origin, History, Literature, and General Results
Author: George WorleyPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230424941
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... LECTURE II. PRECURSORS OF THE REVIVAL. THE opening words of Schiller's 'Thirty Years' War' are familiar to most readers. He says: 'From the beginning of the religious war in Germany to the peace at Miinster, hardly anything great and remarkable has happened in the political world of Europe in which the Reformation has not had the principal share.' We might go further, and say that scarcely any important event has happened since the Reformation which has not been affected, directly or indirectly, by that movement. Especially is this true of subsequent religious transactions on a large scale, whether in Roman Catholic or Protestant countries. But the divergence of their followers from the lines of the original actors in that important drama is very striking. It is curious, for instance, to observe that the modern German critical school, which undoubtedly owes its existence to the teaching of Martin Luther, has proceeded to deny the personal existence of the devil, which was perhaps more of a reality to the great Reformer than it has been to any other human being since the times of the New Testament. On the other hand, many subsequent thinkers, though belonging to religious bodies which derive their origin, or, at least, much of their character, from the Reformation, living at a time remote from the immediate subjects of controversy, have been able to take a calmer and less prejudiced view of the questions at issue, and have gone back, as we should say, from the principles of their founders. Hence the study of the Reformation leads people in two opposite directions, which we may call liberal and conservative. Disregarding temporary and local opinions, the latter has, in the main, been the effect of the Reformation on the great body of...
The Unintended Reformation
Author: Brad S. GregoryPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426407X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Author: Giuliana ChamedesPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674983424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s agenda to defeat the forces of secular liberalism and communism through international law, cultural diplomacy, and a marriage of convenience with authoritarian and right-wing rulers. After the United States entered World War I and the Russian Revolution exploded, the Vatican felt threatened by forces eager to reorganize the European international order and cast the Church out of the public sphere. In response, the papacy partnered with fascist and right-wing states as part of a broader crusade that made use of international law and cultural diplomacy to protect European countries from both liberal and socialist taint. A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals that papal officials opposed Woodrow Wilson’s international liberal agenda by pressing governments to sign concordats assuring state protection of the Church in exchange for support from the masses of Catholic citizens. These agreements were implemented in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany, as well as in countries like Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. In tandem, the papacy forged a Catholic International—a political and diplomatic foil to the Communist International—which spread a militant anticommunist message through grassroots organizations and new media outlets. It also suppressed Catholic antifascist tendencies, even within the Holy See itself. Following World War II, the Church attempted to mute its role in strengthening fascist states, as it worked to advance its agenda in partnership with Christian Democratic parties and a generation of Cold War warriors. The papal mission came under fire after Vatican II, as Church-state ties weakened and antiliberalism and anticommunism lost their appeal. But—as Giuliana Chamedes shows in her groundbreaking exploration—by this point, the Vatican had already made a lasting mark on Eastern and Western European law, culture, and society.
Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Frances KnightPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857727893
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxiety. The end of the century has attracted much interest from scholars of literary and cultural studies, who regard it as a critical moment in the history of their disciplines; but it has been relatively ignored by religious historians. Frances Knight here sets right that neglect. She shows how late Victorian society (often said to be one of the most intensely Christian cultures the world has ever seen) reacted to the bold agendas being set by the thinkers of the fin de siecle; and how prominent Church figures during the era first identified many of the concerns that have preoccupied Christians latterly. These include an active interest in social justice and the creation of new types of communities; increasingly open discussion of the sexual exploitation of children; debates about society's 'decadence'; new ideas about the role of women; and the belief in the redemptive powers of art, pioneered by figures as diverse as P.T. Forsyth, Percy Dearmer and Samuel and Henrietta Barnett.Examining in particular the Christian world of fin de siecle London, the author offers penetrating insights intoa society in which the ritual and culture of Christianity sometimes permeated the aesthetic movement andwhere devotees of the aesthetic movement - like Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and their disciples - often revealed a fascination with Christianity. She argues that the 'long 1890s' was a decisive decade in which various sections of Christian opinion, both on the progressive and the more conservative wings of the faith, began to express views which set the tone for attitudes which would become commonplace in the twentieth century. Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siecle is the focussed treatment of religion and culture at the end of the nineteenth century that the field has long needed. It will be welcomed by scholars of church history, social and cultural history and the history of ideas.
The Catholic Church
Author: John L. Allen Jr.Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976791
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Roman Catholicism stands at a crossroads, a classic ''best of times, worst of times'' moment. On the one hand, the Catholic Church remains by far the largest branch of the worldwide Christian family, and is growing at a remarkable clip. Yet the Church has also been rocked by a series of scandals related to the sexual abuse of minors by clergy, and, even more devastating, the cover-up by the Church hierarchy. The decade-long crisis has taken a massive financial toll, but the blow to both the internal morale and the external moral standing of the Church has been even steeper. Today, the Church has enormous residual strength and exciting future prospects, but also faces steep internal and external challenges. The question of ''whither Catholicism'' is of vital public relevance, for believers and non-believers alike. In The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know®, John L. Allen, Jr., one of the world's leading authorities on the Vatican, offers an authoritative and accessible guide to the past, present, and future of the Church What Everyone Needs to Know® is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.
The Empire’s Reformations
Author: David M. LuebkePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350253308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity into multiple denominations – Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and more. It exposes the origins of modern religious pluralism, both in battle for souls among these emerging camps and in the struggles of political leaders at every level to manage the threat that religious diversity posed to tranquillity and order in a rigidly hierarchical society. As such, it offers a prehistory of religious toleration, not as a positive value – few regarded toleration as inherently good – but as a strategy for keeping the peace. David M. Luebke considers the reformations of religion in the context of concurrent transformations in the political and judicial structures of the Holy Roman Empire, that sprawling confederation of principalities and city-states that embraced most regions where German was spoken. This allows Luebke to view the religious reforms through the lens of imperial politics, showing how the Empire differed from the Atlantic monarchies, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Mediterranean. On a different and equally significant level, he examines how ordinary people of all backgrounds experienced the controversy over religion and responded to reforms of doctrine and observance. The inclusion of both the imperial and local perspectives moves the Reformation beyond the familiar story of theological combat and reimagines it as something that had resonance throughout the world, impacting people's lives in the process.
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Author: Edgar QuinetPublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description