European history: Reformation

Das neue Medium der Flugschrift ermöglichte auch Frauen, in der Öffentlichkeit zu wirken und damit die Verbreitung reformatorischer Ideen voranzubringen.

This book not only articulates a tradition-specific Pentecostal rationality of Biblical Pragmatism, but also provides the first intellectual history of a major British classical Pentecostal denomination: the Elim Pentecostal Church.

Resisting the urge to instruct with a more polemical voice, the SCM Studyguide to Church Leadership will encourage ordinands and trainee church leaders to reassess modern pressures and priorities and to re-orient creatively around the callings, giftings, and approaches that are suitable to Christ and particular to the Church.

Zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum der "Evangelischen Frauen in Baden" legen Anke Ruth-Klumbies und Christoph Schneider-Harpprecht einen Band zu Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunftsperspektiven der evangelischen Frauenarbeit in Baden vor.

The complete works of a Franciscan friar turned Anabaptist theologian and a founder of the Mennonite church.

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today.

Martin Luther was one of the most influential figures of the last millennium, with around 900 million people worldwide belonging to Protestant churches that trace their origins back to the Reformation he started five hundred years ago.

This Cambridge Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to Wesley''s life and work, and to his theological and ecclesiastical legacy.

Volume 5 of The Annotated Luther series features Luther's writings that intersect church and state, faith, and life lived as a follower of Christ.

Offering the first study in any language dedicated to the influential publications of the French Reformed theologian Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591), Theodore Van Raalte begins by recalling Chandieu's reputation as it stood at the death of Theodore Beza in 1605.

Der Band bietet Texte, die Melanchthons intellektuelle Leistungen für den gesamten universitären Fächerkanon seiner Zeit exemplarisch deutlich werden lassen.

Together, and separately, black and white Baptists created different but intertwined cultures that profoundly shaped the South.

Die hier versammelten Glossen erkunden mit philosophischem Spürsinn den Zeitgeist und gehen der Frage nach, was die Aufgabe philosophischen Denkens in der Gegenwart sein kann.

Die theologischen Grundkonzepte Martin Luthers und Thomas Müntzers wurden von kirchlichen und gesellschaftlichen Strömungen oft für eigene Interessen instrumentalisiert, so dass die historischen Personen nur noch eine untergeordnete Rolle spielen.

John Wesley (1703-1791), leader of British Methodism, was one of the most prolific literary figures of the eighteenth century, responsible for creating and disseminating a massive corpus of religious literature and for instigating a sophisticated programme of reading, writing and publishing within his Methodist Societies.

Diverse primary sources bring out unique characteristics of one branch of the Radical Reformation.

This study of John Calvin's ecclesiology argues that Calvin's idea of the twofold identity of the Church--its spiritual identity as the body of Christ and its functional identity as the mother of all believers--is closely related to his understanding of Christian identity and life, which are initiated and maintained by the grace of the triune God.

In dem Vierteljahrhundert seit dem Ende der DDR ist auch über den Protestantismus in der DDR viel geschrieben worden.

On March 20, 1760, a fire broke out in the Cornhill district of Boston, destroying nearly 350 buildings in its wake.

How you eat affects the planet--and everyone else on it.

Dans ces quatre livrets, des théologiens et des théologiennes du monde entier ont réfléchi sur le thème principal et sur les trois sous-thèmes (Libres par la grâce de Dieu : Le salut n'est pas à vendre ; Les êtres humains ne sont pas à vendre ; La création n'est pas à vendre) de la commémoration du 500e anniversaire de la Réformation par la Fédération luthérienne mondiale.

Well-known and well-loved bishop of the Episcopal Church and Anglican CommunionThis official biography tells the compelling story of the Rt.

En esta nueva edición revisada y actualizada de un libro clásico, Geoffrey Parker recurre a fuentes de toda Europa para proporcionar una exposición vibrante y fidedigna de la agitada primera mitad del siglo XVII.

Near the end of his life, Roger Williams, Rhode Island founder and father of American religious freedom, scrawled an encrypted essay in the margins of a colonial-era book.

Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement.

Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders.

In the decades after World War II, Protestant missionaries abroad were a topic of vigorous public debate.

This new volume in the SCM Research series argues that both preaching and Action Research are inherently exposing practices.

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This book makes a significant contribution to the study of African Pentecostalism, by reflecting on their output.

David Martin is a pioneer of a political sociology of religion that integrates a combined analysis of nationalism and political religions with the history of religion.

Die Autorin untersucht den Prozess der Institutionalisierung des Dresdner Diakonissenhauses zwischen dessen Gründung 1844 und dem Tod des ersten Rektors 1881.

Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody.

Dans ces quatre livrets, des théologiens et des théologiennes du monde entier ont réfléchi sur le thème principal et sur les trois sous-thèmes (Libres par la grâce de Dieu : Le salut n'est pas à vendre ; Les êtres humains ne sont pas à vendre ; La création n'est pas à vendre) de la commémoration du 500e anniversaire de la Réformation par la Fédération luthérienne mondiale.

The conversion of African-born slaves and their descendants to Protestant Christianity marked one of the most important social and intellectual transformations in American history.

A revised and expanded version of this classic text for church musicians and other worship planners.

This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke.

This book examines the spiritual experiences of the first British Methodist lay people and the language used to describe those experiences.

Mit Protestsongs machten sie ihrem Unmut Luft.

Die Geschichte der Reformationsjubiläen, deren Anfänge mit dem Beginn des Phänomens "historisches Jubiläum" überhaupt zusammenfallen, ist eine Geschichte immer neuer Bilder der Reformation und namentlich Martin Luthers.

Michael Laffin demonstrates the promise of Martin Luther's thought for contemporary political theology by showing how Luther has been over-determined in standard genealogies of modernity which frequently deafen us to his unique contribution.

Frances Luttikhuizen chronicles the arrival, reception, and suppression of Protestant thought in sixteenth century Spain-referred to at that time as 'Lutheranism'.

Das Reformationsjubiläum steht vor der Tür.

Das seit 1921 erscheinende Jahrbuch für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte wird sich im angezeigten Doppelband mit den Themen Adel, Reformation und Gegenreformation in Schlesien sowie mit Schlesien als preußischer Kirchenprovinz befassen.