The Scandinavian Reformation: from evangelical movement to institutionalisation of reform
When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Sc...
| Summary: | When Martin Luther's protest began making an impact in Scandinavia in the 1520s, this region belonged to the religious and political periphery of Europe. A century later the Nordic countries had become of paramount importance to European Protestantism, and it was the intervention of Lutheran Scandinavia in the Thirty Years' War which helped secure the survival of European Protestantism. This volume describes how the Nordic countries came to be solidly Lutheran states by the early seventeenth century; how the evangelical movements differed and succeeded, and the different pace of reform and its institutionalisation. It offers a revisionist view of the role of the Catholic Church in Scandinavia, and its attempts to halt the reformation, and demonstrates the difficulties facing the new Lutheran churches trying to convert a conservative, peasant population to Protestantism. 1. Introduction / Ole Peter Grell -- 2. The early Reformation in Denmark and Norway 1520-1559 / Martin Schwarz Lausten -- 3. The early Reformation in Sweden and Finland c. 1520-1560 / E.I. Kouri -- 4. The Catholic church and its leadership / Ole Peter Grell -- 5. The consolidation of Lutheranism in Denmark and Norway / Thorkild Lyby and Ole Peter Grell -- 6. The institutionalisation of Lutheranism in Sweden and Finland / Ingun Montgomery -- 7. Faith, superstition and witchcraft in Reformation Scandinavia / Jens Chr. V. Johansen |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016) |
| ISBN: | 0511758693 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511758690 |