German and Scandinavian Protestantism 1700-1918.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Maps and Tables -- Abbreviations -- A Simple Chronology -- Part I. Consolidation Of Reformation Church Order and the Continuance Of Reform -- 1. Hard Times -- i. Prayer as Remembrance and Comfort -- ii. An Unsettled Extended Family of Reformation Church Orders -- iii. The Rite of Public Worship -- 2. Consolidation of a Protestant Canon of Prayer -- i. Prayer as the Practice of Piety -- ii. Printers and Editions -- iii. Reception of Anglican and Puritan Spirituality -- 3. Parish Crisis in a Credulous World -- i. The Baltic Region -- ii. Divine Intervention -- iii. Customary Observance -- iv. Propagation of the Gospel -- 4. The Political Parish and 1648 -- i. A Blind Official Eye to Parish Convention -- ii. The Home Parish and Simultaneous Arrangements -- 5. Government of the Church-State -- i. From Custodian to Sovereign -- ii. Absolutism and the Governance of a Reformation Church -- iii. Jus publicum and Jus ecclesiasticum protestantium -- 6. The Clergy -- i. A Training in Theology -- ii. Lutheran 'Orthodoxy' Fashioned by Hallesian Pietism and a German University Reformation of Manners c.1690-1730 -- iii. Training -- iv. Background -- 7. Cura Animarum Specialis: The Pastoral Office -- i. The Practice of Piety -- ii. Anglican, Puritan, and Dutch Reformed Influence -- iii. Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705) and August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) -- 8. Reform -- i. Visitation -- ii. Land and People, Propagation of the Gospel, and a Reformation of Manners -- iii. Pietism as a Post-War Official Programme -- iv. The Catholic Christian Year in Church and Home -- v. A New Interest in the Shape of the Liturgy -- vi. Church Architecture: From Latin Choir to Congregational Nave -- vii. Church Music: From Gregorian to Ambrosian -- 9. Towards an Apostolic Congregation in Church and Home -- i. Spirituality.

ii. A Plain Person's Daily Devotional Exercise: Halle and Württemberg -- iii. Denmark-Norway and Sweden-Finland -- iv. Homiletic Reform -- v. Hymns -- Part II. Piety, Enlightenment? Religious Awakening, Rediscovery (c.1763-1918) -- Introduction -- 10. The Larger Whole -- 11. Herrnhut -- i. Etiquette and Experiment -- ii. After 1750 -- 12. The Parish and the Office of the Clergy -- i. The Unchanging Historic Parish -- ii. The Lutheran Office Revisited -- 13. Liturgical Reform: The End of the Established Church -- i. A Modern Liturgy? -- ii. Suitable Liturgical Music? -- iii. A Modern Sermon? -- iv. Renovation of Churches -- v. End of the Established Church: Denmark-(Norway), Sweden-(Finland), Prussia -- 14. A Constitutional Reformation Church Order? -- i. New Boundaries and Parishioners -- ii. The Reformation Family of Church Orders Reshaped -- iii. Sweden, Prussia, and Bavaria -- 15. Awakening -- i. Pastoral Failure -- ii. Preaching and Prayer -- iii. Timing and Geography -- 16. Charity -- i. The Gradual End of Home-Parish Benevolence -- ii. A Mix of Enlightened and Moravian Charity -- iii. Saving Children -- iv. Diacony -- v. Innere Mission -- 17. Rediscovery -- i. Partial Rediscovery of the Lutheran Sung Liturgy -- ii. Reformation Hymns and Bach's Choral Works -- iii. Early Christian or High Gothic Parish Churches? -- iv. Lutheran Religious Articles and Luther's Formula Missae -- v. Neo-Lutheran Churchscapes -- 18. Church and (Nation-) State (1840-1890) -- i. Transregional Protestant Gatherings and Discussion about the Constitutional Position of Protestant Churches -- ii. Constitutional Provision at 'National' Level -- iii. Protestant Self-Government in German Lands -- 19. Numbers of Clergy and the Pastoral Care -- i. Protestant German Religious Statistics -- ii. Scandinavia -- iii. Clergy Background and Recruitment.

20. Reformation Churches and a Modern Protestant Moral Order -- i. Pastoral Crisis -- ii. The Legacy of Custodianship: Evangelism and Good Works in Conflict -- iii. Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889) and his Practical Theology -- iv. A Pastorate for Modern Times -- v. A Suitable Protestant Congregational Liturgy, Church Music, and Church Architecture -- Epilogue -- i. A Fragile Modern Protestant Church Order -- ii. War and Hard Times Again -- iii. Zusammenbruch (Collapse) -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This is the first history in English of the Lutheran church in Germany and Scandinavia from 1700 to the end of the First World War - the age of Bach and the Enlightenment, and fundamental social and political change.

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