Title: Lutherans and Calvinists in the age of confessionalism /
Authors: Nischan, Bodo.
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Reformation Germany; Lutheran Church Germany History; Lutheran Church Germany History; Lutheran Church Germany History.; Calvinism Germany History.; Germany Church history.
Contents: Confessional demarcation. Reformation or deformation? Lutheran and Reformed views of Martin Luther in Brandenburg's 'Second Reformation'. -- Ritual and Protestant identity in late Reformation Germany. -- The exorcism controversy and baptism in the late Reformation. -- The 'fractio panis': a Reformed communion proactice in late Reformation Germany. -- The elevation of the host in the age of confessionalism: adiaphoron or ritual demarcation?. -- Demarcating boundaries: Lutheran pericopic sermons in the age of confessionalization. -- Lutheran confessionalization, preaching, and the devil. -- Religion and politics in the age of confessionalism. The palatinate and Brandenburg's 'second Reformation'. -- Calvinism, the Thirty Years' War, and the beginning of absolutism in Brandenburg: the political thought of John Bergius. -- Confessionalism and absolutism: the case of Brandenburg. -- The schools of Brandenburg and the 'second Reformation': centers of Calvinist learning and propaganda.