German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700–1918
Overview
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, reform of the church establishment, and steps taken to enlighten parishioners were almost always held back by the anomalous structural legacy of the Reformation, tradition, and parish habit, sacred and profane. However, the birth of the modern nation-state and its market economy posed a fundamental challenge to the structure and ethos of the Reformation churches, as it did to the Catholic Church. The First World War deepened the crisis further: German Protestants (and the Scandinavians were not immune either, although they remained neutral), who bracketed modernity with crisis and religion with national renewal, and who saw national loyalty as a higher value than the faith, fellowship, and moral order of the church, were swept up into the maw of a modern national war machine which threatened to wipe out Protestantism altogether.
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- Examines the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia
- Explores the birth of the modern nation-state and its market economy
- Includes historical accounts with both global and local perspectives
This is a work of very special character . . . a work of fine nuances, a study in which the complicated network of the post-Reformation ecclesiastical situation in Germany and Scandinavia is explored by means of approaching it from various different angles. . . . Throughout the work, personal and collective forms of devotional life receive much attention . . . This is a rich book; all the more interesting because of its idiosyncratic structure. It is not a manual in the traditional sense . . . [It is] a work which, just because of its originality, may be considered a valuable addition to the steadily expanding Oxford History of the Christian Church.
—Northern History
- Title: German and Scandinavian Protestantism, 1700–1918
- Author: Nicholas Hope
- Series: Oxford History of the Christian Church
- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Print Publication Date: 1995
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 716
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Lutheran Church › Germany--History; Lutheran Church › Scandinavia--History; Germany › Church history--18th century; Scandinavia › Church history--18th century; Germany › Church history--19th century; Scandinavia › Church history--19th century; Germany › Church history--20th century; Scandinavia › Church history--20th century; Protestant Churches › Germany--History; Protestant Churches › Scandinavia--History
- ISBNs: 0198269234, 9780198269236
- Resource ID: LLS:GRMNSCNDNVNPRTS
- Resource Type: Monograph
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