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The Intellectual Origins Of The European Reformation

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It is widely recognized that the sixteenth-century Reformation remains are of the most fascinating and exiting areas of scholarship. A central and important question, raised by intensive modern research on the Renaissance and late medieval scholasticism, concerns the intellectual origins of the Reformation. This updated and expanded version of the original, highly acclaimed edition of 1987 explores the complex intellectual roots of the Reformation, offering a sustained engagement with the ideas of humanism and scholasticism. McGrath demonstrates how the intellectual origins of the Reformation were heterogeneous, and draws out the implications of this finding for our understanding of the Reformation as a whole. McGrath's reading of the Reformation against its complex intellectual background opens up new insights into this highly significant historical phenomenon. Yet this is more than a fascinating exploration in the history of ideas; it is also a defense of the entire enterprise of intellectual history in the face of social historical approaches, and a reaffirmation of the importance of ideas to the development of history.

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Call Number

274.06

Publisher

Hong Kong : Blackwell Publishing., 2004

Collation

299 hlm, Soft Cover 15 x 22,5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-631-22939-1

Classification

274.06

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Edition

2

Subject(s)

History of Christianity
Religion & Spirituality
Christianity in Europe

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Statement of Responsibility

Alister E. McGrath

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