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19 Οκτ 2021 · What reformation? -- The last medieval church and its reformation -- Words, language, and books -- Luther discovers the gospel and challenges the church -- Alternative patterns of reformation -- Calvin and Calvinism -- Counter-reformation -- Exceptional cases: the reformation in the British Isles -- Politics -- People -- Art -- A reformation ...
29 Αυγ 2012 · This History of the Reformation has been written with the intention of describing a great religious movement amid its social environment. The times were heroic, and produced great men, with striking individualities not easily weighed in modern balances. The age is sufficiently remote to compel us to
18 Φεβ 2022 · The book focuses on the vast changes that took place in Western civilization between 1450 and 1650, from Gutenberg's printing press and the subsequent revolution in the spread of ideas to the close of the Thirty Years' War.
2 Μαρ 2021 · Publication date. 1996. Topics. Reformation -- Encyclopedias, Reformation -- Biography -- Encyclopedias, Theology, Doctrinal -- Europe -- History -- 16th century -- Encyclopedias, Europe -- Church history -- 16th century -- Encyclopedias. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press. Collection.
The Reformation, which began in Germany but spread quickly throughout Europe, was initiated in response to the growing sense of corruption and administrative abuse in the church. It expressed an alternate vision of Christian practice, and led to the creation and rise of Protestantism, with all its individual branches.
When reform became impossible and rebellion the only course of action, furious, frustrated believers directed their anger at works of art, an easy and powerful target. Other reformers followed Luther’s example and staged rebellions against the Catholic Church.
‘Culture’ explores the cultural effect of the Reformation. Luther saw the didactic and decorative purpose of art in churches and Bibles, whilst Calvin and Zwingli were iconoclastic, purging imagery from worship. The Catholic Reformation reaffirmed the value of salvific imagery in churches, mission and confessional militancy.
