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Christ's Churches Purely Reformed
This sweeping and eminently readable book is the first synthetic history of Calvinism in almost fifty years. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from its birth in the cities of Switzerland to the unraveling of orthodoxy amid the new intellectual currents of the seventeenth century. As befits a pan-European movement, Benedict’s canvas stretches from the British Isles to Eastern Europe. The course and causes of Calvinism’s remarkable expansion, the inner workings of the diverse national churches, and the theological debates that shaped Reformed doctrine all receive ample attention. The English Reformation is situated within the history of continental Protestantism in a way that re...
Pleading for Diversity
Coolhaes was a Reformed preacher, a writer of theology, a critic of the churches of his day, and an advocate of religious diversity. Coolhaes opposed much of the building up of the organization of the Reformed Church in the Northern Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The struggle between Coolhaes and the Leiden magistrates on one side and the Leiden consistory and fellow-preacher Pieter Cornelisz on the other encapsulated the question of authority which was being asked by many. At the same time, Coolhaes' theology, especially his Spiritualistic understanding of the sacraments, his Erastianism, and his views on free will made him suspicious t...
The Convent of Wesel
This book solves a centuries-old mystery from the Reformation that forces us to rethink how humans engage with the past.
Cunegonde's Kidnapping
In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde’s Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes, and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a “rise of toleration.”
Napoleonische Elitenpolitik im Rheinland
***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Becker: Andreas Becker wurde mit vorliegender Studie 2009 am Historischen Seminar der Universität zu Köln promoviert.
Die Stimme der Sehnsucht II
Ein großer Reichtum an Gedanken und Gefühlen ist in Jürgen Scheiblers Tagebüchern geborgen. Neben sensiblen Alltagsbeobachtungen und Selbstreflexionen hält er Betrachtungen zur Zeit, zu menschlichem Miteinander, spirituelle Erkenntnisse, Therapieerfahrungen und Reiseerlebnisse fest. Offen und freimütig berichtet er von Hoffnungen und Ängsten, von Krisen und Aufschwüngen. Er ermuntert sich selbst zu Lebensgenuss und Sich-Gehen-Lassen, doch mit der Leichtigkeit des Seins tut sich der sensible Grübler schwer. Bücher sind seine Leidenschaft. Freundschaften pflegt er. Interessierte Leser lernen einen gleichermaßen aufgeschlossenen wie zurückhaltenden tiefgründigen Menschen und seine Sicht auf die Welt kennen.
