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This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of knowledge religious belief was--and how it related to more mundane ways of knowing--was forced into the open. As the warring churches fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as something that needed to be justified by individual judgment, evidence, and argument. Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential category by which we express our judgments about science, society, and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion once enjoyed.
History of philosophy --- Christian church history --- History of Europe --- anno 1200-1799 --- 27 <09> --- 230.112 --- 234.26 --- 234.26 Geloof: religieuze twijfel --- Geloof: religieuze twijfel --- 230.112 Geloof aan de leer van een kerk. Motief van geloof in een kerk --- Geloof aan de leer van een kerk. Motief van geloof in een kerk --- 27 <09> Histoire de l'Eglise--Geschiedenis van ... --- 27 <09> Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van ... --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Geschiedenis van ... --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van ... --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van .. --- Theology --- Religion --- History. --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van . --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van --- Religion. --- Theology. --- Théologie --- History --- Histoire. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Théologie
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The Dutch Republic was the most religiously diverse land in early modern Europe, gaining an international reputation for toleration. In Reformation and the Practice of Toleration, Benjamin Kaplan explains why the Protestant Reformation had this outcome in the Netherlands and how people of different faiths managed subsequently to live together peacefully. Bringing together fourteen essays by the author, the book examines the opposition of so-called Libertines to the aspirations of Calvinist reformers for uniformity and discipline. It analyzes the practical arrangements by which multiple religious groups were accommodated. It traces the dynamics of religious life in Utrecht and other mixed communities. And it explores the relationships that developed between people of different faiths, especially in ‘mixed’ marriages.
Reformation --- Reformation. --- Religious tolerance --- Religious tolerance. --- Christianity --- History. --- Christianity. --- History --- Netherlands --- Netherlands. --- Church history. --- Christian church history --- History of the Netherlands --- 248.2 <492> "14/15" --- 248.2 <492> "14/15" Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Nederland--?"14/15" --- Mystieke theologie. Mystiek. Mysticisme--Nederland--?"14/15" --- 27 <09> --- 940.22 --- 283/289 --- 940.22 Geschiedenis van Europa: Reformatie--(1517-1555) --- Geschiedenis van Europa: Reformatie--(1517-1555) --- 27 <09> Histoire de l'Eglise--Geschiedenis van ... --- 27 <09> Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van ... --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Geschiedenis van ... --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van ... --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van .. --- Tolerance, Religious --- Toleration --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van . --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Geschiedenis van
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