{"product_id":"protestants-isbn-9781405150842","title":"Protestants","description":"\u003ci\u003eProtestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania, 1517-1740\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive thematic history of the rise and influence of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the only English language single-volume survey of the rise of early modern Protestantism from its Lutheran beginnings in Germany to its spread to America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a thematic approach to Protestantism by tracing its development within the social, political, and cultural context of early modern Europe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces innovative argument that the central dynamic of Protestantism was not its struggle with Catholicism but its own inner dynamic\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBreaks from traditional scholarship by arguing that the rise of Reformation Protestantism lasted at least two centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eUnites Old World and New World Protestant histories\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Law and Gospel 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Foundations 8\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWittenberg and Rome 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeucorea 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur theology 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheses, dialogue, and debate 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Luther and the German nation 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSwiss Protestants 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe gospel of Christian freedom 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformations 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrder 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDisorder 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneva and Europe 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe honor of Christ 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reformed matrix 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Kingdoms 60\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKings, Priests, and Prophets 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivic Protestantism 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheaters of reform 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommune and covenant 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Faith 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProtestant polities 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConscience and authority 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScripture and identity 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Communities 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBiblical Utopias 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Pursuit of Purity 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWheat and tares 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGodly people 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew World Protestants 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe holy commonwealth 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ways of providence 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Dominions 128\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonds of Communion 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnder the cross 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConfessional culture: the Protestants of Germany 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Subjects 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe pansophic mind 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe biblical soul 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProtestant Environments 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiturgy and architecture 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianography 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Missionary Turn 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Revivals 174\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSigns of the Times 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistories 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProphecy and wrath 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrue Christianity 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePietists 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe radical rebirth 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of Reformation 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitics and piety 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMixed multitudes 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: Modern Protestants 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 261\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“In this thoughtful and highly original book, Scott Dixon takes a thematic approach to the process of building the new Christian communities … Scott Dixon has done an admirable job, given the constraints of space and the breadth of his coverage, in painting a broad-ranging and sophisticated picture of a complex and expansive movement.”  (\u003ci\u003eEHR Oxford Journal Clippings\u003c\/i\u003e, 6 June 2012)\u003c\/p\u003e \"Dixon's contribution lies, rather, in his fascinating and highly original thesis that the formative phase of Protestantism, as a creative social force, must be viewed as extending to the revivalist impulses of the 18th-century Great Awakening in the New World...Dixon's writing here is detailed, solid, and compelling. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" (Choice, 1 May 2011)  \u003cp\u003e\"This is a remarkable work, for its striking originality, its powerful and independent-minded synthesis, its sensitivity to the primary and secondary material, its deployment of really gripping examples and case studies, and its conjoining of the European and North American Protestant experience….”—Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eC. Scott Dixon\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer at Queen’s University of Belfast, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles on early modern religious history, including \u003ci\u003eThe Reformation and Rural Society\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and \u003ci\u003eThe Reformation in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). Dixon has been the recipient of Alexander von Humboldt research fellowships in association with the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel and the Freie Universität Berlin. \u003ci\u003eProtestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania 1517-1740\u003c\/i\u003e presents a comprehensive historiography of the rise, reception, and ongoing global influence of the branches of Christianity that emerged out of the Protestant Reformation. Offering more than a chronological recounting of historic events, renowned religious scholar C. Scott Dixon reveals the role of Protestantism as a creative force in history. Dixon draws on new cultural history to explore the social and cultural dimension of the Reformation as he follows the path of the movement's unfolding from its humble origins in a town in Saxony in sixteenth-century Germany to its bold re-fashioning and reconstitution during the dawn of the Enlightenment in Europe and colonial America. In a break from traditional scholarship, Dixon demonstrates how the formative phase of early modern Protestantism stretched far beyond the age of Luther and Calvin -- that the social, cultural, and political problematic created by the breach with Roman Catholicism was not historically resolved until it had become a transatlantic phenomenon. We are shown how the central dynamic of the Protestant movement was not, in fact, its struggle with Catholicism, but rather its own inner conflict; namely, the tension between established forms of Protestantism such as Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism and the radical elements that had been suppressed and marginalised at the beginning of the Reformation. \u003ci\u003eProtestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania 1517-1740\u003c\/i\u003eoffers a startling new perspective on the complex strands of a 16th-century religious upheaval whose repercussions remain with us to the present day.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989881209061,"sku":"NP9781405150842","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405150842.jpg?v=1761785777","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/protestants-isbn-9781405150842","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}