Protestants

Protestants
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304
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9781405150842
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Protestants: A History from Wittenberg to Pennsylvania 1517–1740 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 therole 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...

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