German and Scandinavian Protestantism, 1700-1918This book is the first history in English of the Lutheran Church in Germany and Scandinavia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A period of fundamental and lasting change in the political landscape with the separation of the old twin monarchies of Sweden-Finland and Denmark-Norway inScandinavia (1808, 1814), and the unification of Germany (1866-71), this was also a time of particular unease and upheaval for the church. Attempts to emulate the spiritual community of the early church, reform of the church establishment, and steps taken to enlighten parishioners were almost alwaysheld back by the anomalous structural legacy of the Reformation, tradition, and parish habit, sacred and profane. However, the birth of the modern nation-state and its market economy posed a fundamental challenge to the structure and ethos of the Reformation churches, as it did to the CatholicChurch. The First World War deepened the crisis further: German Protestants (and the Scandinavians were not immune either, although they remained neutral), who bracketed modernity with crisis and religion with national renewal, and who saw national loyalty as a higher value than the faith,fellowship, and moral order of the church, were swept up into the maw of a modern national war machine which threatened to wipe out Protestantism altogether. |
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Contents
Consolidation of a Protestant Canon of Prayer | 21 |
Parish Crisis in a Credulous World | 41 |
The Political Parish and 1648 | 55 |
Government of the ChurchState | 72 |
The Clergy | 99 |
The Pastoral Office | 120 |
Reform | 147 |
Towards an Apostolic Congregation in Church and Home | 187 |
A Constitutional Reformation Church Order? | 316 |
Awakening | 354 |
Charity | 400 |
Rediscovery | 420 |
Church and NationState 18401890 | 456 |
Numbers of Clergy and the Pastoral Care | 497 |
Reformation Churches and a Modern Protestant | 521 |
Epilogue | 569 |
PIETY ENLIGHTENMENT? RELIGIOUS | 212 |
o The Larger Whole | 226 |
The Parish and the Office of the Clergy | 256 |
The End of the Established Church | 281 |
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