Calvinism [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / D.G. Hart

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792185203321
• Autore: Hart D. G (Darryl G.)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-300-19536-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Classificazione: REL093000REL033000HIS037000
• Disciplina: 284/.209
• Soggetti: Reformed Church - History; Calvinism - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. CITY LIGHTS -- Chapter two. GOD'S FICKLE ANOINTED -- Chapter three. TO REBEL AND TO BUILD -- Chapter four. SHAKING THE FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter five. TAKING THE WORD TO THE WORLD -- Chapter six. NEW COMMUNITIES IN THE LAND OF THE FREE -- Chapter seven. AN EXHAUSTED EUROPE -- Chapter eight. REFORMATION REAWAKENED -- Chapter nine. MISSIONARY ZEAL -- Chapter ten. KIRK RUPTURED AND CHURCH FREED -- Chapter eleven. THE NETHERLANDS' NEW WAY -- Chapter twelve. AMERICAN FUNDAMENTALISTS -- Chapter thirteen. THE CONFESSING CHURCH -- CONCLUSION -- TIMELINE FOR THE HISTORY OF CALVINISM -- NOTES -- FURTHER READING -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history-from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and São Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence. Hart's approach features significant episodes in the institutional history of Calvinism that are responsible for its contemporary profile. He traces the political and religious circumstances that first created space for Reformed churches in Europe and later contributed to Calvinism's expansion around the world. He discusses the effects of the American and French Revolutions on ecclesiastical establishments as well as ; nineteenth- and twentieth-century communions, particularly in Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany, that directly challenged church dependence on the state. Raising important questions about secularization, religious freedom, privatization of faith, and the place of religion in public life, this book will appeal not only to readers with interests in the history of religion but also in the role of religion in political and social life today.