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Author Lausten, Martin Schwarz

Title A Church History of Denmark
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Sources of illustrations -- Preface -- The Middle Ages -- The missionary period -- The Christian kingdom -- The struggle between King and Archbishop -- The late Middle Ages -- Life in the church -- The Reformation -- The presuppositions for the Reformation -- The reformatory struggle -- The introduction of the Reformation -- Conformity -- Orthodoxy -- Piety strengthens the kingdoms -- Luther triumphant -- The state church under absolutism -- Theology and Piety in the Reformation and Orthodoxy Periods -- The Biblical humanists -- The bright day of the gospel -- The consolidation of theology -- The scourge of the anger of God -- and the King's long truncheon -- Devotional literature and hymnic poetry -- Pietism -- Pious wishes -- Anti-clerical pietism -- Ecclesiastical pietism -- The Period of Enlightenment -- Revelation and reason -- The rise and fall of Struensee: the epoch of Guldberg -- Court revolution and reforms -- The church struggle -- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Back to the Bible -- The first popular revival movements -- N.F.S. Grundtvig -- The revival movement, its expansion and divisions -- The social background of the revivals -- Freedom of conscience and the people's church -- Søren Kierkegaard -- The ecclesiastical factions -- The church and the social question -- Theology and Christianity in crisis -- Church government and church policy -- The economy of the people's church -- Theology and the life of the church -- The people's church -- church of the people? -- Selected bibliography -- Index
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SUBJECT Denmark -- Church history
Subject Denmark
Genre/Form Church history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351962742
1351962744