2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict (Nick Needham)

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Turning the world upside down is a messy business.

Universal uncertainty was the aftermath of the Reformation. The Renaissance and Reformation were exciting times of learning and discovery – they pushed the boundaries of accepted thought. The centuries–old status quo had been turned on its head. Nothing was stable anymore. Conflict ensued.

This next instalment of 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power spans from the 16th to the 18th century, Needham documents the birth and coming of age of English Protestantism, Scottish Presbyterianism, and French Catholicism. Perhaps few eras have had such a direct impact on the characteristics of our own period of history.

Featuring:

• Germany and the Lutheran Faith

• The Thirty Years’ War

• The Arminian Controversy and the Synod of Dort

• Puritanism

• The Glorious Revolution

• Persecution in France

• Missionary movements

Volume four of five. Academically reliable, the accessible humorous style and accompanying glossary make church history a subject for everyone to benefit from.

“It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2000–year history of the church. Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge… well worth the wait”– Michael A.G. Haykin, Professor of Church History, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict

Endorsements

It is a brave historian who tackles the extremely challenging task of writing the 2,000-year history of the Church. Well, Nick Needham has more than risen to the challenge. This eagerly-awaited fourth volume has been well worth the wait and, not to pressure our brother scholar, we now look forward to the concluding volume!

Michael A. G. Haykin

Table of Contents

Introduction ....................................................... 7

List of maps and illustrations ....................................... 10

Acknowledgments ................................................. 12

Chapter 1

Germany and the Lutheran Faith .................................... 13

1.  A house divided: the post-Luther controversies

and the Formula of Concord ..................................... 15

2. Lutheran Orthodoxy ............................................ 33

3.  The Thirty Years’ War: the holy text of pike and gun ................ 53

4. Pietism: religion of the heart ..................................... 61

5. Dawn of the Protestant missionary movement ..................... 77

Important people .................................................. 81

Primary source material ............................................ 82

Chapter 2

The Reformed Faith ............................................... 97

Introduction ...................................................... 99

1. Reformed Orthodoxy ..........................................101

2. The Arminian controversy and the Synod of Dort .................127

3. Amyraldianism: the debate that never died .......................143

Important people .................................................156

Primary source material ...........................................157

Chapter 3

England: The Puritan Era. Part One ................................175

1.  Puritanism: The problem of defi nition ...........................177

2. The origins of Puritanism and Separatism ........................183

3. Struggles and schisms: the Elizabethan odyssey ...................195

4.  The Jacobean Church: of Bibles, Pilgrim Fathers,

and High Churchmen ..........................................213

5.  Charles I and the English Civil War .............................227

6.  The English Revolution: the world turned upside down ...............253

Important people .................................................271

Primary source material ...........................................274

Chapter 4

England: The Puritan Era. Part Two ................................295

1. Charles II: the Restoration regime ...............................297

2. James II and the Glorious Revolution ............................327

Important people .................................................341

Primary source material ...........................................343

Chapter 5

Scotland: The Crown Rights of the Redeemer .......................355

Introduction .....................................................357

1.  Of presbyters and kings: from Andrew Melville

to the union of crowns .........................................359

2. South wind blowing: the Anglicizing of the Kirk ..................377

3. The Covenanters: days of power .................................384

4: The Covenanters: days of blood .................................411

5. James VII: Presbyterians victorious ..............................424

Important people .................................................432

Primary source material ...........................................434

Chapter 6

The Roman Catholic Church. Part One .............................445

1.  Introduction: the glory of France ................................447

2. Roman Catholic piety ..........................................452

3. Key fi gures ....................................................457

4. Jansenism: the war about grace ..................................475

Important people .................................................521

Primary source material ...........................................521

Chapter 7

The Roman Catholic Church. Part Two .............................533

1. Gallicanism: who rules the French Church? .......................535

2.  Quietism: to be or not to be mystical .............................543

3. Persecution: the fate of the Huguenots ...........................555

4.  Roman Catholic Mission: experiments in the East .................559

Important people .................................................568

Primary source material ...........................................568

Chapter 8

Eastern Orthodoxy ...............................................575

Introduction .....................................................577

1. Cyril Lucaris: the Calvinist patriarch? ............................579

2. Peter Moghila and his disciples ..................................601

3. The Old Believers: schism in the heart of Russia ..................609

4. Peter the Great: the East looks West .............................619

Important people .................................................623

Primary source material ...........................................624

Glossary .........................................................639

Bibliography .....................................................645

Index of names ...................................................651

Index of subjects .................................................670

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Product Details

Title: 2,000 Years of Christ’s Power, Vol. 4: The Age of Religious Conflict 

Author: Nick Needham

Publisher: Christian Focus

Pages: 688

Binding: Hardback

Size: 21.6 x 13.8 x 4.3 cm

ISBN: 9781781917817