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- Winner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2017.
Overview
The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the Reformation be commemorated 500 years after the fact? In this volume, leading historians and theologians, Protestant and Catholic, come together to grapple with this question and examine the historical significance of the Reformation. Protestantism has been credited for restoring essential Christian truth, blamed for disastrous church divisions, and invoked as the cause of modern liberalism, capitalism, democracy, individualism, modern science, secularism, and so much else. This book examines the historical significance of the Reformation and considers how we might expand and enrich the ongoing conversation about Protestantism's impact. The contributors conclude that we must remember the Reformation not only because of the enduring, sometimes painful religious divisions that emerged from this era, but also because a historical understanding of the Reformation is necessary for promoting ecumenical understanding and thinking wisely about the future of Christianity.
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Author: Thomas Albert Howard , Mark A. Noll
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 0.756kg
ISBN: 9780190264789
ISBN 10: 0190264780
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 September 2016
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents Introduction (The Editors) Part I: Looking Back 1 -Thomas Albert Howard, Remembering the Reformation, 1617, 1817 and 1883: Commemoration as an Agent of Continuity and Change 2 - John Witte, Jr., From Gospel to Law: The Lutheran Reformation and its Impact on Legal Culture 3 - Carlos Eire, Redefining the Sacred and the Supernatural: How the Protestant Reformation Really Did Disenchant the World 4 - Peter Harrison, Protestantism and the Making of Modern Science 5 - Karin Maag, The Reformation and Higher Education 6 - Brad S. Gregory, The Reformation and Modernity: Explaining the Causal Nexus Part II: The Present 7 - Matthew Lundin, Myth and History in Interpreting Protestantism: Recent Historiographical Trends 8 - Herman J. Selderhuis, How to Commemorate the Reformation in Post-Christian Europe 9 - Philip Jenkins, What hath Wittenberg to do with Lagos? Sixteenth-Century Protestantism and 'Global South' Christianity Today 10- Sung-Deuk Oak, Protestantism Comes East: The Case of Korea 11 - Mark A. Noll, Chaotic Coherence: Sola Scriptura and the Twentieth-Century Expansion of Christianity Part III: Theological Considerations 12 - Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Martin Luther at 500 and the State of Global Lutheranism 13 - Matthew Levering, Looking Forward by Glancing Back: Calvin and Aquinas on the Holiness of the Church 14 - Timothy George, The Reformation and the New Ecumenism Afterword by Ronald K. Rittgers
Reviews
Even if the Reformation cannot be praised or blamed for everything that has happened since, it is vital for understanding a great many things. The illuminating essays in this volume will provide both scholars and non-specialists with an excellent and balanced overview of how to understand the ongoing impact of Protestantism in helping to shape the modern world. -George Marsden, author of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Life Fifteen leading Christian scholars from four continents, several traditions, and several disciplines address questions regarding the on-going significance of the Protestant Reformation and what the observance of its five hundred years should lead fellow believers to think and do with its many legacies. These essays pose questions for the necessary, vital, and lively conversations evoked by this anniversary. They provide stimulating answers and directions for the continuing debate. - Robert Kolb, Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus, Concordia Seminary The volume will provide an excellent and insightful overview of the Reformation s long legacies for the formation of Western modernity and I highly recommend it. --Reading Religion
Even if the Reformation cannot be praised or blamed for everything that has happened since, it is vital for understanding a great many things. The illuminating essays in this volume will provide both scholars and non-specialists with an excellent and balanced overview of how to understand the ongoing impact of Protestantism in helping to shape the modern world. -George Marsden, author of C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity: A Life Fifteen leading Christian scholars from four continents, several traditions, and several disciplines address questions regarding the on-going significance of the Protestant Reformation and what the observance of its five hundred years should lead fellow believers to think and do with its many legacies. These essays pose questions for the necessary, vital, and lively conversations evoked by this anniversary. They provide stimulating answers and directions for the continuing debate. - Robert Kolb, Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus, Concordia Seminary
Author Information
Thomas Albert Howard is Professor of History and the Humanities and Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University. Mark A. Noll is Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
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