Originally published in German as: Erlöste und Verdammte : eine Geschichte der Reformation. München : C.H. Beck, 2017. Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-347) and index.
Contents:
6. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal. 2. European Christendom c. 1500 -- 3. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-1530 -- 4. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-1600 -- 5. The Modern Reception of the Reformation -- 6. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal.
Summary:
The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation, sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's condemnation of Luther and his teaching. But Luther believed the pope was condemned to eternal damnation, and this was the root cause of the great split to come. Hatred of the damned drove people to take up arms, while countless numbers left their homes far behind and carried the Reformation message to the furthest corners of the earth in the hope of salvation. In The Saved and the Damned, Thomas Kaufmann presents a dramatic overview of how Europe was transformed by the seismic shock of the Reformation--and of how its aftershocks reverberate right down to the present day. -- Provided by publisher.
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