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Reformation in Historical Thought, The
Overview: Transcending differing national traditions and narrow ecclesiastical perspectives, the authors discuss in detail the views of leading figures in European intellectual history, from the early eyewitnesses of the Reformation to the detached philosophes of the French Englightment, from Sleidan and Ranke to Marx and Engels, together with leading Church historians and theologians. They incorporate recent social-historical writings on radical sects and peasant cults, and approaches as diverse as those of the new "historicism" of Febvre and the Annales school, Weber and Troeltsch and the sociology of religion, psychologists, urban historians, and contemporary Marxists. Nearly two-thirds of the book coves interpretations of the Reformation since 1800. The authors place the works they discuss in both a biographical and a historical context, illuminating many of the personal motivations and contemporary social values informing writers in different ages. This book will become the standard critical guide to the main developments of Reformation studies, as well as a stimulus of further research. Its vast scope and penetrating analysis will make it a classic of early modern European intellectual history.
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