Lutheran Ecclesiastical Culture, 1550-1675 (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, #11)
Literature on confessionalization has opened new vistas for considering early-modern Christianity and its place in Western social-political contexts, but the ecclesiastical cultures of the period need further research and analysis to refine our focus on how Christians lived in their own communities and related to society at large. This volume's essays assess eight elements of Lutheran life (its foundation in sixteenth-century processing of Luther's legacy, university teaching, preaching, cateche...
The Gods of the City (Studies in Central European Histories, #43)
by Anthony Steinhoff
Drawing on extensive archival research, this study of Protestantism in Strasbourg (1870-1914) rethinks traditional understandings of the relationship between religion and European urban modernity. Not only did the city's faith communities exploit modern means to promote the faith, but they also sought to make the community itself more modern.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) (Counterpoint S.)
by Max Weber
A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged-even sanctified-the human quest for prosperity.
German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918 (Oxford History of the Christian Church)
by Nicholas Hope
This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway in Scandinavia (1808, 1814), and the unification of Germany (1866-71), this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, re...
The Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames
by William Ames
The ministry, like many other professions, is in crisis. Uncertainty about its functions in this age of rapid social and technological change is due largely to conflicts between its traditionally dominant institutional form and its newer role as an agent for social reform. This uncertainty afflicts not only practicing and potential ministers, many of whom wish to combine their religious vocation with other careers, but also the laity who hold differing views on the purposes and functions of the...
Die Kirche - Irdischer Raum Der Wahrheit Des Evangeliums
by Hans P Grosshans
An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world. Contemporary Christian movements are not only adopting Jewish symbols and aesthetics but also promoting Jewish practices, rituals, and lifestyles. Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus is the first in-depth ethnography to investigate this growing worldwide religious tendency in the global South. Focusing on an austere "Judaizing Evangelical" variant in Brazil, C...
This book argues that Protestant theological ethics not only reveals basic virtue ethical characteristics, but also contributes significantly to a viable contemporary virtue ethics. Pieter Vos demonstrates that post-Reformation theological ethics still understands the good in terms of the good life, takes virtues as necessary for living the good life and considers human nature as a source of moral knowledge. Vos approaches Protestant theology as an important bridge between pre-modern virtue et...
Umweltethik - Ein Evangelisch-Katholischer Vergleich
by Ursula Lorenz