Modernising Protestantism

A Cultural History of the Dutch Reformed, 1650-1750

Jo Spaans (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

664 Seiten

2025
Pallas Publications (Verlag)
978-90-485-6724-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides a thorough revision of the image of the public church under the Dutch Republic after the Peace of Westphalia and before the onset of the 'high Enlightenment'. Traditional church history considers the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a period of decline. Yet this was the high tide of Dutch expansion when Dutch society was extremely rich. In its five universities and its highly literate population internationally acknowledged scholarship, arts and sciences flowered. Did really nothing of all this vitality rub off on the public religion? Rather than the traditional static image of a rather joyless and ossified orthodoxy, an exploration of the interface between the Reformed church and Dutch society at large reveals a religious culture that had much to offer to various audiences, in the sphere of knowledge production as well as in the form of spiritual solace and everything in between.

Dr Joke Spaans, until 2021 associate professor for the history of Christianity at Utrecht University. Her main interest is the interface between religion and early modern society.

Introduction, Chapter 1. Setting the scene, Chapter 2. Controversies, Chapter 3. Rethinking the Reformation, Chapter 4. Church, State and society, Chapter 5. Ministers, Chapter 6. Laity, Chapter 7. Minor clergy, Chapter 8. Comparative religion, Chapter 9. Theology, Epilogue, Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	13.05.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	1390 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	90-485-6724-6 / 9048567246
ISBN-13	978-90-485-6724-9 / 9789048567249
Zustand	Neuware