The Scandinavian Reformation: From Evangelical Movement to Institutionalisation of Reform

ISBN-13: 9780521441629 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 232 str.

Ole Peter Grell

Opis

This volume provides a history of the Scandinavian Reformation from its evangelical beginning in the 1520s to its institutionalization by the mid-seventeenth century, when Lutheran territorial churches were established in the Nordic countries. It reassesses the role of the Catholic Church in trying to halt the Reformation and traces the evangelical movements in their social context, focusing on the relationship among church, state and society in post-Reformation Scandinavia, including such aspects as popular beliefs and official religion.

Recenzje

"This volume is a welcome addition to the literature available in the English language devoted to the Scandinavian Reformation....the present volume greatly illuminates the English-speaking reader's understanding as to how and why the Catholic Church disappeared in Scandinavia within two decades of the onset of evangelical preaching." Trygve R. Skarsten, Church History

Spis treści

1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell; 2. The Early Reformation in Denmark and Norway 1520–1559 Martin Schwarz Lausten; 3. The Early Reformation in Sweden and Finland ca. 1520–1560 E. I. Kouri; 4. The Catholic Church and its Leadership Ole Peter Grell; 5. The Consolidation of Lutheranism in Denmark and Norway Thorkild Lyby and Ole Peter Grell; 6. The Institutionalisation of Lutheranism in Sweden and Finland Ingun Montgomery; 7. Faith, Superstition and Witchcraft in Reformation Scandinavia Jens Chr.V. Johansen; Index.