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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100198841043

ISBN-139780198841043

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Book TitleSaved and the Damned : a History of the Reformation

Number of Pages378 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicChristianity / General, Europe / General

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, History

AuthorThomas Kaufmann

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight26.9 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight." -- Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford"This is among the finest brief introductions to the Reformation in the current literature... Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." -- Choice"Although this book was obviously aimed at a German audience, its translation into English is highly valuable, for it provides Anglophone readers with a succinct summation of the era of the Reformations by one of Germany's most eminent historians." -- Carlos M. N. Eire, Journal of Jesuit Studies"The Saved and the Damned is the product of deep and profound reflection, whose results are deployed with amazing facility." -- Lucian Staiano-Daniels, German Studies Review, "This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight." -- Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford"This is among the finest brief introductions to the Reformation in the current literature... Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." -- Choice"Although this book was obviously aimed at a German audience, its translation into English is highly valuable, for it provides Anglophone readers with a succinct summation of the era of the Reformations by one of Germany's most eminent historians." -- Carlos M. N. Eire, Journal of Jesuit Studies, "This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight." -- Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford"This is among the finest brief introductions to the Reformation in the current literature... Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." -- Choice, "This book - by the greatest living authority on Martin Luther - provides a new history for our times. In gripping prose, Kaufmann explains how the Reformation spread throughout Europe and then globally, and what its legacy is today. Always he keeps an eye on the Ottoman Empire, central to the story. Kaufmann is a sure guide and knows the world of Reformation popular print inside out. This freshly written book brings sixteenth-century religious ideas to life, so that the reader grasps just why salvation and damnation mattered so much, and what the Reformation means in a united Germany now. The book is packed with unforgettable detail and original insight." -- Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History, University of Oxford

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Dewey Decimal270.6

Table Of ContentI. Luther and the Reformation1. A European Event2. Ideal and Actual Reformations3. One Reformation or Many? In the Beginning Was LutherII. European Christendom circa 15001. Construction of a Continent2. Structures3. Nations and Powers in Europe4. The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation5. Shared Spiritual and Clerical Cultures6. Cultural AwakeningsIII. The Early Reformation in the Empire, 1517-15301. Thirteen Turbulent Years2. Martin Luther: A Portrait3. The Drop-out: A Young Augustinian Monk4. The Exegete of Wittenberg5. Luther's Break with the Pope6. The Imperial Diet of Worms, Rebellion, and Upheaval7. Zwingli and the Urban Reformation in Zurich8. Intra-Reformation Disputes9. Political Decisions of Church and StateIV. Post-Reformation Europe, 1530-16001. Language, Education, Law: Religious Culture Reformed2. Early Reformation Movements Outside the Empire3. John Calvin and the Reformed International4. The Royal Reformations in Scandinavia and England5. The Pacified, Restive Empire6. The Transformation of Roman Catholicism7. Dissenters and Nonconformists8. Latin Europe after the ReformationV. The Modern Reception of the Reformation1. Reformation Jubilees: 1617 to 20172. Interpretation and DebateVI. The Reformation and the Present: An Appraisal1. Time Accelerated: A Change or an Apocalypse?2. Impact on the Modern West3. Global Protestantism

SynopsisThomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself.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., Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself.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 onthe 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., Leading scholar Thomas Kaufmann argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself: the Reformers were concerned with the salvation of the soul., Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. 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.

LC Classification NumberBR305.3